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... speaking of their fathers , their roots , " did not set his love upon you , nor choose you , because ye were more in number than any other people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you , and because he ...
... speaking of their fathers , their roots , " did not set his love upon you , nor choose you , because ye were more in number than any other people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you , and because he ...
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... speak best for Christ ; another can labor much for Christ : but there are others , who cannot speak , and that is no sin ; who cannot labor , who are too busy in their profes- sion all the day , and that is no sin , for not to be ...
... speak best for Christ ; another can labor much for Christ : but there are others , who cannot speak , and that is no sin ; who cannot labor , who are too busy in their profes- sion all the day , and that is no sin , for not to be ...
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... speak of the word of God as if it would be no injury to Christianity if the Bible were annihilated ; they ought to know better . I believe that this precious book is inspired , and not only inspired , but that the words employed in it ...
... speak of the word of God as if it would be no injury to Christianity if the Bible were annihilated ; they ought to know better . I believe that this precious book is inspired , and not only inspired , but that the words employed in it ...
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... speaking of temporal effects only , the poor man feels the ennobling fact that his hut , however poor , is his castle , and that wherever the winds and rains may penetrate . Majesty cannot enter without that poor man's permission ; and ...
... speaking of temporal effects only , the poor man feels the ennobling fact that his hut , however poor , is his castle , and that wherever the winds and rains may penetrate . Majesty cannot enter without that poor man's permission ; and ...
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... speak to those who know painfully what life is — what struggles there are in this age of commercial competition , how many are battling with the waves of life who can neither touch the bottom nor see the shore , nor estimate aright what ...
... speak to those who know painfully what life is — what struggles there are in this age of commercial competition , how many are battling with the waves of life who can neither touch the bottom nor see the shore , nor estimate aright what ...
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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.