Esther and Her Times: In a Series of Lectures on the Book of EstherPresbyterian board of publication, 1859 - 276 pages |
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Page 44
... expect him to settle the stakes of the lottery , the dice - box , or the gaming - table . Strict- ly speaking there is no chance . God rules over everything . The flight of a sparrow , the fall of a hair , the upturning of a die , the ...
... expect him to settle the stakes of the lottery , the dice - box , or the gaming - table . Strict- ly speaking there is no chance . God rules over everything . The flight of a sparrow , the fall of a hair , the upturning of a die , the ...
Page 50
... expect in one who had no large plan of his own to accomplish such things ; but who was a mere underworkman , often misunder- standing , and never comprehending the designs of the principal Architect . No man , that has the en- tire ...
... expect in one who had no large plan of his own to accomplish such things ; but who was a mere underworkman , often misunder- standing , and never comprehending the designs of the principal Architect . No man , that has the en- tire ...
Page 55
... ing by the king's hasty wrath against Vashti , it is not unlikely he had given occasion to their anger . We are not to expect true peace or solid friendship in such spheres of life . Where persons form for MORDECAI RAISED UP . 55.
... ing by the king's hasty wrath against Vashti , it is not unlikely he had given occasion to their anger . We are not to expect true peace or solid friendship in such spheres of life . Where persons form for MORDECAI RAISED UP . 55.
Page 59
... elevated to a post he is unable to fill , is de- graded in the eyes of all beholders . Every advance in life has its risk ; the higher a man is lifted , the more we expect of him ; and a statue of MORDECAI RAISED UP . 59.
... elevated to a post he is unable to fill , is de- graded in the eyes of all beholders . Every advance in life has its risk ; the higher a man is lifted , the more we expect of him ; and a statue of MORDECAI RAISED UP . 59.
Page 60
... expect of him ; and a statue of giant size when near the ground , dwindles to a pigmy upon a lofty pillar . No greater calamity can befall any man than to be called from an humble sphere of use- fulness he is competent to fill , to a ...
... expect of him ; and a statue of giant size when near the ground , dwindles to a pigmy upon a lofty pillar . No greater calamity can befall any man than to be called from an humble sphere of use- fulness he is competent to fill , to a ...
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Page 231 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 207 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 89 - Let us be patient! These severe afflictions not from the ground arise, but oftentimes celestial benedictions assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, amid these earthly damps; what seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, may be heaven's distant lamps.
Page 174 - For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head : and let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 153 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Page 45 - Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
Page 227 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 252 - Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city. 20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations ; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
Page 148 - Perhaps He will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer, But if I perish, I will pray, And perish only there. 6 I can but perish if I go; I am resolved to try; For, if I stay away, I know I must for ever die.
Page 159 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.