Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses, on the Series of Scriptural Passages, which Form the Subject of the Celebrated Oratorio of Handel, Volume 1author and sold, 1786 - Messiah |
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Page xvii
... followers of him , who was compaffionate to the infirmities and mif- takes of his difciples , and taught them , not every thing at once , but gradually , as they were able to bear . The Author ought not to be very folici- tous , upon ...
... followers of him , who was compaffionate to the infirmities and mif- takes of his difciples , and taught them , not every thing at once , but gradually , as they were able to bear . The Author ought not to be very folici- tous , upon ...
Page 39
... followers ; but his notice and favour exalted them highly . He came to preach the gospel to the poor , to fill the hungry with good things , to fave the chief of finners , to open a door of hope and falvation to persons of the vilest ...
... followers ; but his notice and favour exalted them highly . He came to preach the gospel to the poor , to fill the hungry with good things , to fave the chief of finners , to open a door of hope and falvation to persons of the vilest ...
Page 75
... followers , who , though they sometimes from a view of his mighty works , were ftruck with aftonifh- ment , and constrained to fay , Is not this the Son of David ? were at length influenced by their priests to prefer a murderer to him ...
... followers , who , though they sometimes from a view of his mighty works , were ftruck with aftonifh- ment , and constrained to fay , Is not this the Son of David ? were at length influenced by their priests to prefer a murderer to him ...
Page 134
... followers of their entire dependance upon him , by faying , Without me ye can do nothing + . The language of the Old Testament is to the fame purport , They looked unto him and were enlightened ** . In the Lord Jehovah I have 2 Cor ...
... followers of their entire dependance upon him , by faying , Without me ye can do nothing + . The language of the Old Testament is to the fame purport , They looked unto him and were enlightened ** . In the Lord Jehovah I have 2 Cor ...
Page 135
... followers of their entire dependance upon him , by faying , Without me ye can do nothing + . The language of the Old Teftament is to the fame purport , They looked unto him and were enlightened ** . In the Lord Jehovah I have * 2 Cor ...
... followers of their entire dependance upon him , by faying , Without me ye can do nothing + . The language of the Old Teftament is to the fame purport , They looked unto him and were enlightened ** . In the Lord Jehovah I have * 2 Cor ...
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Page 322 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Page 438 - To me belongs all actual and all possible good, all created and uncreated beauty, all that eye hath seen or imagination conceived ; and more than that, for eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive what God hath prepared for them that love Him.
Page 108 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 361 - He who was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God...
Page 411 - He was taken from prison, and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation ? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Page 175 - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
Page 5 - Reproach hath broken my heart ; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none ; And for comforters, but I found none.
Page 351 - But he was wounded for our transgressions ; he was bruised for our iniquities ; the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
Page 367 - All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, "He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Page 64 - The facts, however, are so plain, and the evidence against them so strong and pointed, that there is not the least doubt of their guilt being fully proved, and that nothing but a pardon can preserve them from punishment. In this situation, it should seem their wisdom to avail themselves of every expedient in their power for obtaining mercy. But they are entirely regardless of...