Selections from Theological LecturesLincoln and Edmands, 1833 - 204 pages |
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... child - FOR EVER ? What an awful import these words bear ! Standing upon the grave of my family , must I say to its departed members , " Farewell ! ye who were once the partners of my joys and sorrows ! I leaned upon you for support ; I ...
... child - FOR EVER ? What an awful import these words bear ! Standing upon the grave of my family , must I say to its departed members , " Farewell ! ye who were once the partners of my joys and sorrows ! I leaned upon you for support ; I ...
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... child - the son of her vows , who was now fast pressing towards manhood . The parents of this amiable youth were ... children when they are assembled before her 36 BEAUTIES OF COLLYER . X.
... child - the son of her vows , who was now fast pressing towards manhood . The parents of this amiable youth were ... children when they are assembled before her 36 BEAUTIES OF COLLYER . X.
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... child for a season , opens the fountain of a mother's tears , and adds to the grey hairs of his father . To lose him by death , is to cause them to go bitterly in the anguish of their soul all their days . What was it , then , to offer ...
... child for a season , opens the fountain of a mother's tears , and adds to the grey hairs of his father . To lose him by death , is to cause them to go bitterly in the anguish of their soul all their days . What was it , then , to offer ...
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... child ? and who shall be bold enough to attempt a description of his rapture , when Heaven , which had put his faith to so severe a trial , commanded him to forbear , and indeed provided itself a victim ? THE ORPHAN BOY . How ...
... child ? and who shall be bold enough to attempt a description of his rapture , when Heaven , which had put his faith to so severe a trial , commanded him to forbear , and indeed provided itself a victim ? THE ORPHAN BOY . How ...
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... child : but the whole world cannot supply her place to him ! THE GOD OF NATURE . WHY does my heart beat with pulsations of rap- ture , when my eye measures yonder heavens , or glides over hills and vallies along the surface of this ...
... child : but the whole world cannot supply her place to him ! THE GOD OF NATURE . WHY does my heart beat with pulsations of rap- ture , when my eye measures yonder heavens , or glides over hills and vallies along the surface of this ...
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Page 177 - Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes; it disappears!
Page 23 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 12 - Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...
Page 28 - And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life ; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Page 18 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page 30 - I die : behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one : Oh, let me escape thither (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Page 37 - And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 57 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 144 - CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.