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... heart remained deceitful above all things , and his life desperately wicked . 8 In this selection of Abraham we have ... heart , any more than upon the heart of Terah , or 4 THE TENT AND THE ALTAR .
... heart remained deceitful above all things , and his life desperately wicked . 8 In this selection of Abraham we have ... heart , any more than upon the heart of Terah , or 4 THE TENT AND THE ALTAR .
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... heart . Whatever be our circumstances , our station in life , let us regard the world as the way , not as the end ; as our voyage , and not our haven . If it be a smooth and a beautiful and a flowery way , be thankful , and walk the ...
... heart . Whatever be our circumstances , our station in life , let us regard the world as the way , not as the end ; as our voyage , and not our haven . If it be a smooth and a beautiful and a flowery way , be thankful , and walk the ...
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... heart , will make the bitterest cup taste sweet , and the heaviest load lie lightly , and the severest cross comparatively nothing . Love is inner confidence , and this is happiness . When there is love in a man's heart , there is a ...
... heart , will make the bitterest cup taste sweet , and the heaviest load lie lightly , and the severest cross comparatively nothing . Love is inner confidence , and this is happiness . When there is love in a man's heart , there is a ...
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... heart that no ocean in the world can fill ; a longing after perfection , which is a prophecy of its ultimate possession , which nothing upon earth can gratify , which grows in intensity , the more we attempt to remove it by the opiates ...
... heart that no ocean in the world can fill ; a longing after perfection , which is a prophecy of its ultimate possession , which nothing upon earth can gratify , which grows in intensity , the more we attempt to remove it by the opiates ...
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... hearts . He is not a brave man who is physically insensible - granite is stone , not humanity : he who has a woman's heart , but a hero's nerve to brace it , is a true hero , and in his sphere a great " Fear not ” is therefore not ...
... hearts . He is not a brave man who is physically insensible - granite is stone , not humanity : he who has a woman's heart , but a hero's nerve to brace it , is a true hero , and in his sphere a great " Fear not ” is therefore not ...
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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.