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... importance and our pride sink in the dust . In this manner good men have , in all ages , learned and loved to abase themselves . Thus David , in the eighth Psalm , strongly affected with a sense of the greatness of God as dis- played in ...
... importance and our pride sink in the dust . In this manner good men have , in all ages , learned and loved to abase themselves . Thus David , in the eighth Psalm , strongly affected with a sense of the greatness of God as dis- played in ...
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... importance is this tendency , as to justify the declaration on his part , that heaven and earth shall sooner pass away , than one jot or one tittle of the law shall fail , until all shall be fulfilled . In proportion to these things is ...
... importance is this tendency , as to justify the declaration on his part , that heaven and earth shall sooner pass away , than one jot or one tittle of the law shall fail , until all shall be fulfilled . In proportion to these things is ...
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... importance , its solemnity , its sacred charac- ter , not from the splendour with which it may be built , nor from the rites with which it may be consecrated , but from its Divine Inhabitant . On the door - posts , on the altar , of ...
... importance , its solemnity , its sacred charac- ter , not from the splendour with which it may be built , nor from the rites with which it may be consecrated , but from its Divine Inhabitant . On the door - posts , on the altar , of ...
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... importance than our present existence . To realize these truths , according to their solem- nity and importance , is in this respect to have a sober mind . But to prefer this world to that which is to come , and our present enjoyments ...
... importance than our present existence . To realize these truths , according to their solem- nity and importance , is in this respect to have a sober mind . But to prefer this world to that which is to come , and our present enjoyments ...
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... importance to what we think our own good . We judge in modes directly opposite to each other , with slender evidence , with no evidence , and in direct opposition to all evidence . Of this truth , he who looks even with a slight ...
... importance to what we think our own good . We judge in modes directly opposite to each other , with slender evidence , with no evidence , and in direct opposition to all evidence . Of this truth , he who looks even with a slight ...
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Page 272 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...
Page 466 - And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory : and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
Page vii - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 31 - Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Page 466 - But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; . and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia...
Page 80 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Page ix - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it : and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 462 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 184 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 199 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.