The Works of Joseph Hall: Contemplations on the Old and New TestamentsTalboys, 1837 |
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... contemplation ; but now he is gotten up to the top of the ladder , and seeth the face of God indeed in the true Peniel . Methinks now I hear some of you say with Balaam , O that I might die the death of the righteous , and that my ...
... contemplation ; but now he is gotten up to the top of the ladder , and seeth the face of God indeed in the true Peniel . Methinks now I hear some of you say with Balaam , O that I might die the death of the righteous , and that my ...
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... CONTEMPLATION I. - THE CREATION . GENESIS I. WHAT Can I see , O God , in thy creation , but miracles of won- ders ? Thou madest something of nothing , and of that something , all things . Thou , which wast without a beginning , gavest a ...
... CONTEMPLATION I. - THE CREATION . GENESIS I. WHAT Can I see , O God , in thy creation , but miracles of won- ders ? Thou madest something of nothing , and of that something , all things . Thou , which wast without a beginning , gavest a ...
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... CONTEMPLATION II . - OF MAN . GENESIS I. , II . BUT , O God , what a little lord hast thou made over this great world ! The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth , as man is to the heaven : when I see the heavens , the ...
... CONTEMPLATION II . - OF MAN . GENESIS I. , II . BUT , O God , what a little lord hast thou made over this great world ! The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth , as man is to the heaven : when I see the heavens , the ...
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... contemplation . After thou hadst drawn that large real map of the world , thou didst thus abridge it into this little table of man ; he alone con- sists of heaven and earth , soul and body . Even this earthly part , which is vile in ...
... contemplation . After thou hadst drawn that large real map of the world , thou didst thus abridge it into this little table of man ; he alone con- sists of heaven and earth , soul and body . Even this earthly part , which is vile in ...
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... contemplation of this new workmanship , and the glory of the author , did so take him up , that he had neither leisure nor cause of complaint . If man had craved a helper , he had grudged at the condition of his creation , and had ...
... contemplation of this new workmanship , and the glory of the author , did so take him up , that he had neither leisure nor cause of complaint . If man had craved a helper , he had grudged at the condition of his creation , and had ...
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Page xxxviii - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page 491 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page 446 - And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.
Page 446 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 447 - Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
Page 491 - Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Page 389 - And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head ; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
Page 188 - Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
Page 304 - And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men : and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. 20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us...
Page 487 - Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.