Discourses: Chiefly Biographical, of Persons Eminent in Sacred HistoryG. Parkin & Company, 1850 - 404 pages |
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... respects would have been had he kept his first estate , we are unable to say . In what measure science would have prevailed , -to what extent it would have been needful , or employed , -how easy of discovery , or how successful and ...
... respects would have been had he kept his first estate , we are unable to say . In what measure science would have prevailed , -to what extent it would have been needful , or employed , -how easy of discovery , or how successful and ...
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... respect to " man's chief good . " By some it was pronounced to consist in one thing ; by others in something else . Their conclusions were various , and oft times contradictory , and all their inquiries resulted in doubt and un ...
... respect to " man's chief good . " By some it was pronounced to consist in one thing ; by others in something else . Their conclusions were various , and oft times contradictory , and all their inquiries resulted in doubt and un ...
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... respects the character and purposes of God ; the condition and destiny of man , and their mutual rela- tions . The origin of the world , the moral government of God ; the primitive and present condition of man , his duties , dangers ...
... respects the character and purposes of God ; the condition and destiny of man , and their mutual rela- tions . The origin of the world , the moral government of God ; the primitive and present condition of man , his duties , dangers ...
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... respects the most distant futurity . But , in this matter " God has not left himself without witness . " On a subject to us of such deep con- cern and practical interest , he has furnished the needful informa- tion . He who created the ...
... respects the most distant futurity . But , in this matter " God has not left himself without witness . " On a subject to us of such deep con- cern and practical interest , he has furnished the needful informa- tion . He who created the ...
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... respects . His nature , his destinies , and the prominent place which he holds in the works , purposes , and ... respect no better than those of the inferior animals , is however possessed of special endowments , and invested ...
... respects . His nature , his destinies , and the prominent place which he holds in the works , purposes , and ... respect no better than those of the inferior animals , is however possessed of special endowments , and invested ...
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Page 78 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 215 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac : the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south : and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 278 - And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey...
Page 136 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. " Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 139 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 177 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Page 274 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan...
Page 214 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 218 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 364 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.