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... broken Thread Want of Forbearance . So I Twisted it 11 15 16 17 How far is it to Canaan ? The Railroad Station Nothing and Something 18 22 23 Halleluiah 26 The Book of Time 27 The pleasant Field 30 The bald - headed Sexton 31 Turn your ...
... broken Thread Want of Forbearance . So I Twisted it 11 15 16 17 How far is it to Canaan ? The Railroad Station Nothing and Something 18 22 23 Halleluiah 26 The Book of Time 27 The pleasant Field 30 The bald - headed Sexton 31 Turn your ...
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... broken Finger - post The Times 108 109 111 113 . 114 Edmund Hawker 116 On an unfaithful Friend . 119 Bernard Gilpin 121 • The deep Pit Common Occurrences The Gods of the Heathen Tyranny and Oppression Jewish Custom 122 124 126 129 130 ...
... broken Finger - post The Times 108 109 111 113 . 114 Edmund Hawker 116 On an unfaithful Friend . 119 Bernard Gilpin 121 • The deep Pit Common Occurrences The Gods of the Heathen Tyranny and Oppression Jewish Custom 122 124 126 129 130 ...
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... The Allegory 219 The Sermon 220 Faith and Patience . 221 The Stork with the broken Bill 223 The old Hovel . 224 Have you wound up the Clock ? 227 Put some Coals on the Fire 234 THOUGHTS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL . A SWEET SPIRIT . THERE.
... The Allegory 219 The Sermon 220 Faith and Patience . 221 The Stork with the broken Bill 223 The old Hovel . 224 Have you wound up the Clock ? 227 Put some Coals on the Fire 234 THOUGHTS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL . A SWEET SPIRIT . THERE.
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... broken , and the iron mace that once lay at the foot of yonder tomb has been taken away . These mutilated fragments bid us look upwards for immor- tality ; for on earth we cannot find it . Observe the galleries above , on double columns ...
... broken , and the iron mace that once lay at the foot of yonder tomb has been taken away . These mutilated fragments bid us look upwards for immor- tality ; for on earth we cannot find it . Observe the galleries above , on double columns ...
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... excellence of the gospel of Jesus Christ . It tells me to seek trea- sures in heaven , it moves my heart to magnify the Lord , and my spirit to rejoice in God my Saviour , and in him alone . THE BROKEN THREAD . It is a bad sign when.
... excellence of the gospel of Jesus Christ . It tells me to seek trea- sures in heaven , it moves my heart to magnify the Lord , and my spirit to rejoice in God my Saviour , and in him alone . THE BROKEN THREAD . It is a bad sign when.
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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.