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... idols . One a witness for God , the other apostates from God . Judah saved in marked contrast to Israel punished . 9. Lo - am . ] not my people ; the covenant relation dissolved . Son may typify the revival of strength in the reign of ...
... idols . One a witness for God , the other apostates from God . Judah saved in marked contrast to Israel punished . 9. Lo - am . ] not my people ; the covenant relation dissolved . Son may typify the revival of strength in the reign of ...
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... idol , and prefer emptiness and vanity . An idol is nothing . Men have many idols . When they do not worship God , they worship themselves , their fellow- creatures , their works , and their sub- stance . It is not necessary that each ...
... idol , and prefer emptiness and vanity . An idol is nothing . Men have many idols . When they do not worship God , they worship themselves , their fellow- creatures , their works , and their sub- stance . It is not necessary that each ...
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... Idols and idolatrous nations whose alliance they courted , and to whom they ascribed the gifts of life , bread and water ( Jer . xliv . 17 ) ; picture of life estranged from God . 6. Hedge and make ] Build a wall , a double enclosure of ...
... Idols and idolatrous nations whose alliance they courted , and to whom they ascribed the gifts of life , bread and water ( Jer . xliv . 17 ) ; picture of life estranged from God . 6. Hedge and make ] Build a wall , a double enclosure of ...
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... Idols do not give the necessities and enjoyments of life . alone can fill men's " hearts with food and gladness " ( Acts xiv . 17 ) . The heathens had a goddess of corn and gods of , wine from whom they expected these gifts ; so God men ...
... Idols do not give the necessities and enjoyments of life . alone can fill men's " hearts with food and gladness " ( Acts xiv . 17 ) . The heathens had a goddess of corn and gods of , wine from whom they expected these gifts ; so God men ...
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... idols . 3. Ascribing God's gifts to idols . 4. Justifying this course from benefits received . " We too have our idols , which our natural hearts madly run after , turning away from God . Whatever we make our chief good , out- side of ...
... idols . 3. Ascribing God's gifts to idols . 4. Justifying this course from benefits received . " We too have our idols , which our natural hearts madly run after , turning away from God . Whatever we make our chief good , out- side of ...
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Page 206 - That Day is a Day of Wrath, a Day of Trouble and distress, a Day of wasteness and desolation, a Day of darkness and gloominess, a Day of clouds and thick darkness.
Page 143 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 586 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 513 - And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Page 334 - FOR, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 365 - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Page 519 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; Thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 504 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Page 492 - But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Page 156 - Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard, in that he feared...