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... . A FATHERLESS AND MOTHERLESS PRIEST 303 CHAPTER XX . THE HEAVENLY HIGHWAY 317 CHAPTER XXI . THE POWER OF LOVE CHAPTER XXII . FORGOTTEN MERCIES AND FORSAKEN VOWS • 334 352 THE TENT AND THE ALTAR . CHAPTER I. A PILGRIM viii CONTENTS .
... . A FATHERLESS AND MOTHERLESS PRIEST 303 CHAPTER XX . THE HEAVENLY HIGHWAY 317 CHAPTER XXI . THE POWER OF LOVE CHAPTER XXII . FORGOTTEN MERCIES AND FORSAKEN VOWS • 334 352 THE TENT AND THE ALTAR . CHAPTER I. A PILGRIM viii CONTENTS .
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... priests by their altars have acknowledged , that it was good to have been afflicted , if all experience shows how difficult it is to hold the full cup , and how unprofitable it is to dwell in constant sunshine - for we cannot bear too ...
... priests by their altars have acknowledged , that it was good to have been afflicted , if all experience shows how difficult it is to hold the full cup , and how unprofitable it is to dwell in constant sunshine - for we cannot bear too ...
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... priest first made the sacrifice without , he then went into the holy place and made intercession ; and whilst the high - priest was in the holy place , making inter- cession , all Israel was waiting with expectant and trembling hearts ...
... priest first made the sacrifice without , he then went into the holy place and made intercession ; and whilst the high - priest was in the holy place , making inter- cession , all Israel was waiting with expectant and trembling hearts ...
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... priest to introduce you to me ? Therefore have recourse to angels or saints to mediate between me and you ? No — “ I am the All - sufficient one " . - therefore come at once into my presence , and in confiding and filial love " walk ...
... priest to introduce you to me ? Therefore have recourse to angels or saints to mediate between me and you ? No — “ I am the All - sufficient one " . - therefore come at once into my presence , and in confiding and filial love " walk ...
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... priest , and archbishop , and bishop , and acolyte , and deacon , and subdeacon , sounds the same , and all is unison . Harmony is much more noble and beautiful . In Protestantism we have harmony . Christ gives the key- note , each ...
... priest , and archbishop , and bishop , and acolyte , and deacon , and subdeacon , sounds the same , and all is unison . Harmony is much more noble and beautiful . In Protestantism we have harmony . Christ gives the key- note , each ...
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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.