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... love to your country , here is an opportunity to prove it , —edu- cate her poor ; you who complain of the growing ... everlasting gospel insincerity , - wherever it hitherto hath flourished in purity , the countries have enjoyed an ...
... love to your country , here is an opportunity to prove it , —edu- cate her poor ; you who complain of the growing ... everlasting gospel insincerity , - wherever it hitherto hath flourished in purity , the countries have enjoyed an ...
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... everlasting love , and who hath drawn them with loving kindnesses ; who , when passing by , saw them in their blood , and said unto them , Live . Oh ! the blessedness of the heir of glory , the happiness of those who are redeem- ed from ...
... everlasting love , and who hath drawn them with loving kindnesses ; who , when passing by , saw them in their blood , and said unto them , Live . Oh ! the blessedness of the heir of glory , the happiness of those who are redeem- ed from ...
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... of eternal life ? " he abhors iniquity , not because judgment follows , but because it is contrary to the law of his ... love is better than life , that thy peace passeth all understanding . Oh ! may the tide of thanksgiving and praise ...
... of eternal life ? " he abhors iniquity , not because judgment follows , but because it is contrary to the law of his ... love is better than life , that thy peace passeth all understanding . Oh ! may the tide of thanksgiving and praise ...
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... everlasting love , " Greater love hath no man than this , that a man lay down his life for his friends . Ye are my friends , if ye do whatsoever I command you . " He was greater than David ; for he finished the work the father gave him ...
... everlasting love , " Greater love hath no man than this , that a man lay down his life for his friends . Ye are my friends , if ye do whatsoever I command you . " He was greater than David ; for he finished the work the father gave him ...
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... everlasting love . That we may be sharers in this love , that we may be imitators of the lives of those who have gone to glory , and that the likeness of Christ may appear in us , is my earnest desire . LETTER IX . " As from the wing no ...
... everlasting love . That we may be sharers in this love , that we may be imitators of the lives of those who have gone to glory , and that the likeness of Christ may appear in us , is my earnest desire . LETTER IX . " As from the wing no ...
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Page 243 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 179 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 92 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Page 93 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 88 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Page 42 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 174 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 109 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Page 133 - Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Page 56 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...