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... speaking . Satan never at rest till he has done all the mischief he is permitted . Good to be always ready for another and a worse encounter . Seneca says , Cæsar sometimes put up his sword , but never put it off . " - Thy sons . " The ...
... speaking . Satan never at rest till he has done all the mischief he is permitted . Good to be always ready for another and a worse encounter . Seneca says , Cæsar sometimes put up his sword , but never put it off . " - Thy sons . " The ...
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... speak the whole truth ( 2 Kings v . 25 ) . " Walking up and down in it . " God says the same thing of him , but tells us how ( 1 Peter v . 8 ) . As Job still re- tained his integrity , so Satan his assiduity . Believers neither to be ...
... speak the whole truth ( 2 Kings v . 25 ) . " Walking up and down in it . " God says the same thing of him , but tells us how ( 1 Peter v . 8 ) . As Job still re- tained his integrity , so Satan his assiduity . Believers neither to be ...
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... A reverence due to such prodigious woe [ Sir R. Blackmore ] . Unseasonable words an aggravation of the sufferer's grief . The " " friends confounded at Job's calamity and unable to speak to 21 HOMILETIC COMMENTARY : JOB . CHAP . II .
... A reverence due to such prodigious woe [ Sir R. Blackmore ] . Unseasonable words an aggravation of the sufferer's grief . The " " friends confounded at Job's calamity and unable to speak to 21 HOMILETIC COMMENTARY : JOB . CHAP . II .
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... speaking ( Prov . xxxi . 5 , 6 ; Is . lii . 7 ) ; ( 3 ) deliberate and grave utterance ( Ps . lxxviii . 2 ; Prov . iii . 6 ) . Orientals speak seldom , and then gravely and sententiously . Job long silent from his extraordinary calamity ...
... speaking ( Prov . xxxi . 5 , 6 ; Is . lii . 7 ) ; ( 3 ) deliberate and grave utterance ( Ps . lxxviii . 2 ; Prov . iii . 6 ) . Orientals speak seldom , and then gravely and sententiously . Job long silent from his extraordinary calamity ...
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... speak and act only from conviction of duty . Care to be taken , how- ever , that that conviction be an enlightened one . Compulsion from our own spirit not to be mistaken for impulsion from God's . Better not to speak at all than not to ...
... speak and act only from conviction of duty . Care to be taken , how- ever , that that conviction be an enlightened one . Compulsion from our own spirit not to be mistaken for impulsion from God's . Better not to speak at all than not to ...
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Page 53 - Commit thy way unto the LORD; Trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, And thy judgment as the noonday.
Page 123 - But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Page 66 - But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Page 107 - When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Page 48 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 102 - For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Page 125 - And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, And never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust, And the worms shall cover them.
Page 50 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered ? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Page 118 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 113 - For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The dust, that waits upon his sultry march, When sin hath moved him, and his wrath is hot, Shall visit earth in mercy; shall descend Propitious in his chariot paved with love; And what his storms have blasted and defaced For man's revolt shall with a smile repair.