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... things ; almost perpetually in the contemplation of them . I spent most of my time in thinking of divine things , year after year ; often walking alone in the woods , and solitary places , for meditation , soliloquy , and prayer , and ...
... things ; almost perpetually in the contemplation of them . I spent most of my time in thinking of divine things , year after year ; often walking alone in the woods , and solitary places , for meditation , soliloquy , and prayer , and ...
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... things in it , had great respect to a shewing forth and resembling spiritual things , because God in some instances seems to have gone quite beside the ordinary laws of nature in order to it , particularly that in serpents ' charming ...
... things in it , had great respect to a shewing forth and resembling spiritual things , because God in some instances seems to have gone quite beside the ordinary laws of nature in order to it , particularly that in serpents ' charming ...
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... things that might be mentioned , they are repeated often , but the antitype is but once . The shadows are often repeated to show t [ w ] o things , viz . , [ 1. ] that the thing shadowed is not yet fulfilled , and 2. to signify the ...
... things that might be mentioned , they are repeated often , but the antitype is but once . The shadows are often repeated to show t [ w ] o things , viz . , [ 1. ] that the thing shadowed is not yet fulfilled , and 2. to signify the ...
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Four Early Travelers and Observers | 1 |
George Alsop 1638post 1666 | 27 |
Of the Situation and Plenty | 34 |
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