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Thus should we study the law of God , practise its precepts ourselves , be conformed to the rule , and then teach others ; ministers , their people , parents , their children , and christian friends , one another , and be careful that ...
Thus should we study the law of God , practise its precepts ourselves , be conformed to the rule , and then teach others ; ministers , their people , parents , their children , and christian friends , one another , and be careful that ...
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If we desire the friendship of God , we must be devout and obes dient . It is an important remark of Ezra's , v . ... The surest and safest way to be easy , honourable and happy , is to make God our friend , to live pear to ...
If we desire the friendship of God , we must be devout and obes dient . It is an important remark of Ezra's , v . ... The surest and safest way to be easy , honourable and happy , is to make God our friend , to live pear to ...
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But now truo dif10 ficulties arose , one from their friends : And Judah said , The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed , and , [ there is ) much rubbish ; so that we are not able to build the wall : they began to murmur ...
But now truo dif10 ficulties arose , one from their friends : And Judah said , The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed , and , [ there is ) much rubbish ; so that we are not able to build the wall : they began to murmur ...
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Who can but blush when healths are forced at christian banquets , while the civili : ties of an heathen prince allowed this liberty ! Many think they never make enough of their friends , unless they tempt them to eat and drink to excess ...
Who can but blush when healths are forced at christian banquets , while the civili : ties of an heathen prince allowed this liberty ! Many think they never make enough of their friends , unless they tempt them to eat and drink to excess ...
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1 T HOSE who have early been left orphans , should reflect on the care of Providence in raising them up guardians and friends . It was happy for Esther , when in a strange land , to find 50 faithful and tender a guardian as her cousin ...
1 T HOSE who have early been left orphans , should reflect on the care of Providence in raising them up guardians and friends . It was happy for Esther , when in a strange land , to find 50 faithful and tender a guardian as her cousin ...
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Page 211 - Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you. For Him will I accept; lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Page 245 - The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer ; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust ; My buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Page 43 - They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
Page 82 - Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether boldest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this...
Page 300 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 370 - For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments...
Page 219 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. 8. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Page 34 - And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven...
Page 415 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 45 - Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children : and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already : neither is it in our power to redeem them ; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
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| Title | A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament, with Devotional and Practical Reflections, for the Use of Families, Volume 4 A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament, with Devotional and Practical Reflections, for the Use of Families, Robert Gentleman |
| Author | Job Orton |
| Editor | Robert Gentleman |
| Publisher | Samuel Etheridge, 1805 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2007 |
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