Discourses: Chiefly Biographical, of Persons Eminent in Sacred HistoryG. Parkin & Company, 1850 - 404 pages |
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... wisdom profound , and design unerring . But the event proclaimed not only the power and wisdom , but also the benevolence of the Creator . Every production , in its kind , was perfect . Every living thing was endued with its appropri ...
... wisdom profound , and design unerring . But the event proclaimed not only the power and wisdom , but also the benevolence of the Creator . Every production , in its kind , was perfect . Every living thing was endued with its appropri ...
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... wisdom , and goodness so distinctly imprinted on every page of creation's wide - spread volume Let us trace some of the prominent instances in which this record has been verified - when God , by his efficient mandate , caused light to ...
... wisdom , and goodness so distinctly imprinted on every page of creation's wide - spread volume Let us trace some of the prominent instances in which this record has been verified - when God , by his efficient mandate , caused light to ...
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... , " in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom , and knowledge . " What a flood of light does the sun of science shed around us ! Illumined by its beams , man explores the starry world , and ransacks the deep 12 GOD THE AUTHOR OF LIGHT .
... , " in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom , and knowledge . " What a flood of light does the sun of science shed around us ! Illumined by its beams , man explores the starry world , and ransacks the deep 12 GOD THE AUTHOR OF LIGHT .
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... wisdom of men , and of angels would be infinitely incompetent to decide this question . Indeed , the fate of fallen angels must have presented insur- mountable difficulties against the hope of forgiveness . But man is not only guilty ...
... wisdom of men , and of angels would be infinitely incompetent to decide this question . Indeed , the fate of fallen angels must have presented insur- mountable difficulties against the hope of forgiveness . But man is not only guilty ...
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... wisdom and benevolence , where else than in God will we find wisdom , and benevolence equal to these benign results ? 4th . “ God said , Let there be light , and there was light " - when he imparted , and wherever he does impart the ...
... wisdom and benevolence , where else than in God will we find wisdom , and benevolence equal to these benign results ? 4th . “ God said , Let there be light , and there was light " - when he imparted , and wherever he does impart the ...
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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.