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Page 1
... natural force abated . " At the end of the forty years in Midian , we find him in the same situation as at the beginning . Ver . 1 , 2. He kept the flock of Jethro , his father - in - law , the Priest , or Chief of Midian , to whom he ...
... natural force abated . " At the end of the forty years in Midian , we find him in the same situation as at the beginning . Ver . 1 , 2. He kept the flock of Jethro , his father - in - law , the Priest , or Chief of Midian , to whom he ...
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... nature of God , spiritual ; which is nothing else but the most simple conception , the most abstract recognition of the Divine Majesty , which can be fastened on our minds : for no other thoughts should we ever entertain of God , than ...
... nature of God , spiritual ; which is nothing else but the most simple conception , the most abstract recognition of the Divine Majesty , which can be fastened on our minds : for no other thoughts should we ever entertain of God , than ...
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... natural fertility to some of the plains that lie to- wards the Mediterranean Sea . It is this which renders it a fit average specimen of what the whole land must have been when fully cultivated by an abundant and active population . In ...
... natural fertility to some of the plains that lie to- wards the Mediterranean Sea . It is this which renders it a fit average specimen of what the whole land must have been when fully cultivated by an abundant and active population . In ...
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... natural cause of all this evil was the absence of seasonable rain . Rain which waters the earth , and blesses it with fertility , God has withheld , and thus brought all these evils and many more which I need not stay to enumerate ...
... natural cause of all this evil was the absence of seasonable rain . Rain which waters the earth , and blesses it with fertility , God has withheld , and thus brought all these evils and many more which I need not stay to enumerate ...
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... nature for them , yet , in another , they are represented as doing it for themselves . In this act there was , no doubt , an exhibition of faith in the Lord's name , power , and dominion ; but , at the same time , there was an admixture ...
... nature for them , yet , in another , they are represented as doing it for themselves . In this act there was , no doubt , an exhibition of faith in the Lord's name , power , and dominion ; but , at the same time , there was an admixture ...
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Page 33 - IN the cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time ; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime.
Page 17 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head; How his first followers and servants sped: The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down to heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope springs...
Page 44 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see them to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 70 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Page 58 - For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Page 30 - The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone : but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Page 186 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 208 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 'God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Page 117 - Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Page 276 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...