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... body to be burned , and have not charity , it pro- fiteth me nothing , " 1 Cor . xiii . 1. These things , then , though SOMETHING among men , are NOTHING . before God . Living , as we do , in a world of sin and sorrow , with temptations ...
... body to be burned , and have not charity , it pro- fiteth me nothing , " 1 Cor . xiii . 1. These things , then , though SOMETHING among men , are NOTHING . before God . Living , as we do , in a world of sin and sorrow , with temptations ...
Page 42
... body , but the spirit . It not only injures the living , but blasts with its pestilential poison the character of the dead . " What shall be done unto thee , thou false tongue ? " The flame , the sword , the wild beast and the ...
... body , but the spirit . It not only injures the living , but blasts with its pestilential poison the character of the dead . " What shall be done unto thee , thou false tongue ? " The flame , the sword , the wild beast and the ...
Page 62
... body only , but as individuals ; and that , as a single leaf bears the likeness of the branch , and the branch the likeness of the tree , so a single member of the church bears the image of the whole church , and the whole church the ...
... body only , but as individuals ; and that , as a single leaf bears the likeness of the branch , and the branch the likeness of the tree , so a single member of the church bears the image of the whole church , and the whole church the ...
Page 68
... body throws out its own roots several yards from the ground : these , at first , are thin , slender fibres ; but they grow thicker until they reach the surface , and then , striking into the ground , increase to large trunks , and ...
... body throws out its own roots several yards from the ground : these , at first , are thin , slender fibres ; but they grow thicker until they reach the surface , and then , striking into the ground , increase to large trunks , and ...
Page 71
... bodies on a crazy rail , are thoughtless and reckless enough to trust the welfare of their souls on a foundation equally precarious . On what , then , are you depending ? It is quite bad enough when our earthly hopes break down with us ...
... bodies on a crazy rail , are thoughtless and reckless enough to trust the welfare of their souls on a foundation equally precarious . On what , then , are you depending ? It is quite bad enough when our earthly hopes break down with us ...
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Page 52 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 10 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Page 96 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 41 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind : but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 160 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness : all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Page 77 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 179 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 45 - OsING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 96 - God indeed ; Without our aid he did us make : We are his flock, he doth us feed ; And for his sheep he doth us take.
Page 20 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.