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... fear not , Abram : I am thy shield , and thy exceeding great reward . " GEN . xv . 1 . - GOD addresses words of comfort to his people only when necessity demands it . Abraham must have been laboring under a depressing sense of fear , or ...
... fear not , Abram : I am thy shield , and thy exceeding great reward . " GEN . xv . 1 . - GOD addresses words of comfort to his people only when necessity demands it . Abraham must have been laboring under a depressing sense of fear , or ...
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... fear , as Abraham very prob- ably feared , when they look into the future . We have all a taste for divination , we all like to prophesy , if we only think we can succeed ; we delight in constantly turning our backs upon the past , and ...
... fear , as Abraham very prob- ably feared , when they look into the future . We have all a taste for divination , we all like to prophesy , if we only think we can succeed ; we delight in constantly turning our backs upon the past , and ...
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... Fear not , I am thy exceeding great reward , " is , as I have said , bringing into today more than God designs for today . Every man has plenty to occupy him for every day , but if you insist upon bringing the fears of future evils that ...
... Fear not , I am thy exceeding great reward , " is , as I have said , bringing into today more than God designs for today . Every man has plenty to occupy him for every day , but if you insist upon bringing the fears of future evils that ...
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... Fear not . " What are we to under- stand by this expression ? and what are contingent calamities that we are hot to fear ? " Fear not " does not mean insen- sibility . Man is made to feel ; stoicism is not Christianity . The bravest ...
... Fear not . " What are we to under- stand by this expression ? and what are contingent calamities that we are hot to fear ? " Fear not " does not mean insen- sibility . Man is made to feel ; stoicism is not Christianity . The bravest ...
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... fear not , and yet not to be insensible , nor to be a believer in fatalism , nor to indulge in bravado . The prescription , " Fear not , " rests upon substantial ground . The precept is followed by the words , " I am thy shield and thy ...
... fear not , and yet not to be insensible , nor to be a believer in fatalism , nor to indulge in bravado . The prescription , " Fear not , " rests upon substantial ground . The precept is followed by the words , " I am thy shield and thy ...
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Page 202 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Page 142 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 143 - Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 138 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac ; and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said ; That in Isaac shall thy seed be called ; accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 70 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men...
Page 353 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God...
Page 109 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 108 - And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and...
Page 64 - Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors: Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Page 2 - And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, " In thee shall all nations be blessed.