The age of the great patriarchs from Adam to Jacob, Volume 1Sunday School Union, 1880 - Bible |
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... truths which so often justify the peculiar form in which Divine . revelation is given to us . The work will be found ... truth and goodness will own it , and sanctify its influence upon his fellow - labourers in the blessed work of ...
... truths which so often justify the peculiar form in which Divine . revelation is given to us . The work will be found ... truth and goodness will own it , and sanctify its influence upon his fellow - labourers in the blessed work of ...
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... truth God . of the essential and eternal Divine Unity Mosaism and Christianity alike are founded . It will be part of our purpose in this work to show how Moses , in the Book Genesis the of Genesis , lays the necessary foundation of the ...
... truth God . of the essential and eternal Divine Unity Mosaism and Christianity alike are founded . It will be part of our purpose in this work to show how Moses , in the Book Genesis the of Genesis , lays the necessary foundation of the ...
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... Truth , cannot but be affected by the imperfection of the medium through which it is con- veyed . There is a very true and proper sense in which we may say , that God put His revelation into limits when He was thus pleased to speak in ...
... Truth , cannot but be affected by the imperfection of the medium through which it is con- veyed . There is a very true and proper sense in which we may say , that God put His revelation into limits when He was thus pleased to speak in ...
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... truth that are sharply contrasted , almost contra- dictory . There is not an element even of man's bodily nature which is not ascribed to God . " The eyes of the Lord are in every place , beholding the evil and the good ; His ears are ...
... truth that are sharply contrasted , almost contra- dictory . There is not an element even of man's bodily nature which is not ascribed to God . " The eyes of the Lord are in every place , beholding the evil and the good ; His ears are ...
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... truths for preservation down to the later ages . If God would give even the first gene- ration of mankind the knowledge of His relations with them in human language , then we can see the fitness , Fitness of and adore the grace ...
... truths for preservation down to the later ages . If God would give even the first gene- ration of mankind the knowledge of His relations with them in human language , then we can see the fitness , Fitness of and adore the grace ...
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Page 27 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 81 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 264 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, "of whom it was said, 'That in Isaac shall thy seed be called/ "accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 115 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 74 - We could not choose but look on still ; Since there is no place so alone The which he doth not fill. Sundays the pillars are, On which heaven's palace arched lies : The other days fill up the spare And hollow room with vanities. They are the fruitful beds and borders In God's rich garden : that is bare Which parts their ranks and orders.
Page 71 - But although the night apparently equalizes the circulation well, yet it does not sufficiently restore its balance for the attainment of a long life. Hence one day in seven, by the bounty of Providence, is thrown in as a day of compensation, to perfect, by its repose, the animal system.
Page 148 - Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Page 244 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 42 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 77 - Droop not though shame, sin, and anguish are round thee ; Bravely fling off the cold chain that hath bound thee, Look to yon pure heaven smiling beyond thee ; Rest not content in thy darkness — a clod. Work for some good, be it ever so slowly ; Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly ; Labor ! all labor is noble and holy ; Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.