Things new and old; a series of lectures on the principal characters of the Old Testament. Vol. 1, pt. 1, Volume 1, Part 1Wertheim & Macintosh, 1852 - 12 pages |
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... peace . Who can doubt that He might have continued to enjoy uninterrupted felicity in the hea- venly mansions though man had perished under the sentence of a violated law ? But that was not his choice . His infinite benevolence yearned ...
... peace . Who can doubt that He might have continued to enjoy uninterrupted felicity in the hea- venly mansions though man had perished under the sentence of a violated law ? But that was not his choice . His infinite benevolence yearned ...
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... peaceful habits of the numerous living creatures around him , that made him so it was his own healthy state of mind and body . God had made him perfect , and he rejoiced in the perfection of his being . Let us consider his state : - 1 ...
... peaceful habits of the numerous living creatures around him , that made him so it was his own healthy state of mind and body . God had made him perfect , and he rejoiced in the perfection of his being . Let us consider his state : - 1 ...
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... peace - no self - idolatry - no rebellion against the decrees of the Allwise - no inordinate affec- tion — no abuse of God's gifts - no discontent , pride , passion , tumults , whisperings , back - bitings , fraud , batred , strife - no ...
... peace - no self - idolatry - no rebellion against the decrees of the Allwise - no inordinate affec- tion — no abuse of God's gifts - no discontent , pride , passion , tumults , whisperings , back - bitings , fraud , batred , strife - no ...
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... Far better for you to consult your own experience and that of others , and it will inform you that whether as regards health , peace , character , or fortune , none ever hardened themselves against His laws 28 ADAM .
... Far better for you to consult your own experience and that of others , and it will inform you that whether as regards health , peace , character , or fortune , none ever hardened themselves against His laws 28 ADAM .
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... peace and blessed- ness , it would have appeared to them the most extra- vagant folly , as well as gross ingratitude , to violate , even in thought , the simple injunction upon which their happiness depended . Now all was changed , and ...
... peace and blessed- ness , it would have appeared to them the most extra- vagant folly , as well as gross ingratitude , to violate , even in thought , the simple injunction upon which their happiness depended . Now all was changed , and ...
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Page 203 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curseth thee : and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 14 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 171 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 158 - Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Page 168 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 94 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 243 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 258 - Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all...
Page 152 - But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. * For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away ; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 197 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear : clouds they are without water, carried about of winds ; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots...