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... mean insen- sibility . Man is made to feel ; stoicism is not Christianity . The bravest spirits on the field of conflict have often nestled in the most tender and susceptible hearts . He is not a brave man who is physically insensible ...
... mean insen- sibility . Man is made to feel ; stoicism is not Christianity . The bravest spirits on the field of conflict have often nestled in the most tender and susceptible hearts . He is not a brave man who is physically insensible ...
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... means that the first burst of joy , as it broke from the patri- arch's heart , leaped like a little streamlet let loose from the mountain , sparkling and making sweet music in the sun- shine , but after the streamlet had become deeper ...
... means that the first burst of joy , as it broke from the patri- arch's heart , leaped like a little streamlet let loose from the mountain , sparkling and making sweet music in the sun- shine , but after the streamlet had become deeper ...
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... . " What does this mean ? We can understand it by referring to parallel passages of Scripture . We read , for instance , of " God before whom my father did - walk . " Again , " God before whom THE HOLY AND HAPPY WALK . 55.
... . " What does this mean ? We can understand it by referring to parallel passages of Scripture . We read , for instance , of " God before whom my father did - walk . " Again , " God before whom THE HOLY AND HAPPY WALK . 55.
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... means perfectly prepared for all the events , contingencies , occurrences of life , the Christian is perfect now ; if perfection means what we have assumed it to be in the first illustration , perfect holiness , or perfect happiness ...
... means perfectly prepared for all the events , contingencies , occurrences of life , the Christian is perfect now ; if perfection means what we have assumed it to be in the first illustration , perfect holiness , or perfect happiness ...
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... mean intellectually so a people who have a mathematics not less powerful and subtle than ours -one goes and teaches him to worship in this way , another in that way ; one says that his children should be baptized , another , that they ...
... mean intellectually so a people who have a mathematics not less powerful and subtle than ours -one goes and teaches him to worship in this way , another in that way ; one says that his children should be baptized , another , that they ...
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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.