Select Pieces in Verse and Prose, Volume 2G. Davidson, 1816 - 617 pages |
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Page 284
... certainly in some , and perhaps in all ages , been the objects of the severest visitations . If then it be so , that failings , to us invisible , bring with them such fearful consequences , how shall we calculate the sum of evil to be ...
... certainly in some , and perhaps in all ages , been the objects of the severest visitations . If then it be so , that failings , to us invisible , bring with them such fearful consequences , how shall we calculate the sum of evil to be ...
Page 298
... certainly not from the Holy Scriptures . But I cannot yet quite dismiss the present objection . It does certainly at the first view appear surprizing , that the children of Israel in the wilderness , while they enjoyed such singular ...
... certainly not from the Holy Scriptures . But I cannot yet quite dismiss the present objection . It does certainly at the first view appear surprizing , that the children of Israel in the wilderness , while they enjoyed such singular ...
Page 301
... certainly , if he had thought fit , have closed his prophecy with as much clearness as he commenced it : and the belief of a Christian is so powerfully fortified by the consideration of the body of this prophecy , that he could hardly ...
... certainly , if he had thought fit , have closed his prophecy with as much clearness as he commenced it : and the belief of a Christian is so powerfully fortified by the consideration of the body of this prophecy , that he could hardly ...
Page 336
... certainly , though more theatrically , exhibited in short violent efforts , than by a steady , per- manent , unwearied , unyielding agency and progression . Nor let us forget the moral ; " Through faith and patience we inherit the ...
... certainly , though more theatrically , exhibited in short violent efforts , than by a steady , per- manent , unwearied , unyielding agency and progression . Nor let us forget the moral ; " Through faith and patience we inherit the ...
Page 337
... certainly it opens a field of very curious and very profitable speculation . It is a common remark , that a principle of compensa- tion runs through the works of God . In the physical and intellectual world this is observable ; and so ...
... certainly it opens a field of very curious and very profitable speculation . It is a common remark , that a principle of compensa- tion runs through the works of God . In the physical and intellectual world this is observable ; and so ...
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Popular passages
Page 474 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith...
Page 274 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Page 432 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Page 410 - He that is of God heareth God's words. Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Page 432 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 468 - Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works,
Page 411 - But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
Page 537 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Page 482 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie : but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Page 396 - O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.