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... thoughts of man's heart were evil before the Flood ; God pronounces that they were evil after the Flood ; and in the days of Abraham the degeneracy seems to have been so entire , that God had to select a heathen , an idolater , dwell ...
... thoughts of man's heart were evil before the Flood ; God pronounces that they were evil after the Flood ; and in the days of Abraham the degeneracy seems to have been so entire , that God had to select a heathen , an idolater , dwell ...
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... thought , anxiety , and aim , and object of your life ; regard it as a pathway only to a better , and live as those that so feel . Let those that weep be as though they wept not we may weep , but our weeping must not be tears of despair ...
... thought , anxiety , and aim , and object of your life ; regard it as a pathway only to a better , and live as those that so feel . Let those that weep be as though they wept not we may weep , but our weeping must not be tears of despair ...
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... thought , or acted , in a frame the most sensitive and the most shrinking from the least spectacle of suffering , of sorrow , or of pain . man . " Fear not , " in the next place , is not fatalism . The Moslem troops are often so stern ...
... thought , or acted , in a frame the most sensitive and the most shrinking from the least spectacle of suffering , of sorrow , or of pain . man . " Fear not , " in the next place , is not fatalism . The Moslem troops are often so stern ...
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... thoughts in all their intrinsic eloquence and force , most people would wish to die — not to die , because dying itself is good , but willing to die for the sake of the bright and glorious sunshine that settles on the happy shores that ...
... thoughts in all their intrinsic eloquence and force , most people would wish to die — not to die , because dying itself is good , but willing to die for the sake of the bright and glorious sunshine that settles on the happy shores that ...
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... thought , the 11th chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews . Paul alludes to the noble army , the goodly fellowship , the glorious company that are there- " Seeing we are surrounded , or encompassed , with so great a cloud of witnesses ...
... thought , the 11th chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews . Paul alludes to the noble army , the goodly fellowship , the glorious company that are there- " Seeing we are surrounded , or encompassed , with so great a cloud of witnesses ...
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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.