Lectures on the Bible, to the youngWilliam Oliphant, 1848 - 152 pages |
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... immured in closets , with gloom in their hearts and darkness on their faces - boys and girls " playing " in its streets - your youthful energies given to religion and hallowed by its power , all 2 Lectures on the Bible .
... immured in closets , with gloom in their hearts and darkness on their faces - boys and girls " playing " in its streets - your youthful energies given to religion and hallowed by its power , all 2 Lectures on the Bible .
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... darkness , and shows us the true God clearly . " * And my young friends , your own country was no better than other nations . Your ancestors were poor benighted pagans . The Druid shrouded in bloody mystery reigned over Scotland , and ...
... darkness , and shows us the true God clearly . " * And my young friends , your own country was no better than other nations . Your ancestors were poor benighted pagans . The Druid shrouded in bloody mystery reigned over Scotland , and ...
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... darkness " would settle down upon you . Forget the Bible - No . You can- not wish to lose connexion with Christ and happiness , or abandon the hope of a future being , —with eternity for your lifetime , and infinitude for your home ...
... darkness " would settle down upon you . Forget the Bible - No . You can- not wish to lose connexion with Christ and happiness , or abandon the hope of a future being , —with eternity for your lifetime , and infinitude for your home ...
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... darkness . Shrink then , O start back , from such unrighteous feeling , and hearken for a moment to the sweet and tender strains of the ministrel : - " And from the prayer of want , and plaint of woe , O never , never , turn away thine ...
... darkness . Shrink then , O start back , from such unrighteous feeling , and hearken for a moment to the sweet and tender strains of the ministrel : - " And from the prayer of want , and plaint of woe , O never , never , turn away thine ...
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... darkness ! It is a work in which Christ rejoices — for it is a work like his own a work of salvation . You become " workers together " with Christ . You engage in the best of labour , in promoting the happiness of men and the glory of ...
... darkness ! It is a work in which Christ rejoices — for it is a work like his own a work of salvation . You become " workers together " with Christ . You engage in the best of labour , in promoting the happiness of men and the glory of ...
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Page 29 - Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Page 105 - For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children : That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; Who should arise and declare them to their children : That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments...
Page 29 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 122 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 86 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 107 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 118 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 59 - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream : and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words, every one from his neighbour.
Page 78 - And I said, This is my infirmity : but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember the works of the LORD : surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
Page 32 - And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with : but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give ; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.