England in the Sixteenth Century; Or, A History of the Reigns of the House of Tudor

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Religious Tract Soc., 1850 - 436 pages
 

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Page 86 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 181 - Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Page 62 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 319 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page 304 - Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein : and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Page 81 - Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee : the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Page 50 - They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
Page 14 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: they would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof: therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Page 43 - I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth ; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
Page 317 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

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