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... grace — and the ever enveloping provi- dential presence of the God of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob . The patriarchs ... grace in a fallen world , the first proofs of its transforming and elevating influences . No one can read their ...
... grace — and the ever enveloping provi- dential presence of the God of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob . The patriarchs ... grace in a fallen world , the first proofs of its transforming and elevating influences . No one can read their ...
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... grace , but of debt . But to him that worketh not , but believeth on him that jus- tifieth the ungodly , his faith is counted for righteousness . " And also at the 17th verse of the same chapter : " As it is written , I have made thee a ...
... grace , but of debt . But to him that worketh not , but believeth on him that jus- tifieth the ungodly , his faith is counted for righteousness . " And also at the 17th verse of the same chapter : " As it is written , I have made thee a ...
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... grace of God . Why did God select Abraham ? He was a heathen , just like others . There is no evidence that the refracted and reflected light of truth , as it passed through the media of tradition , had made any good impressions upon ...
... grace of God . Why did God select Abraham ? He was a heathen , just like others . There is no evidence that the refracted and reflected light of truth , as it passed through the media of tradition , had made any good impressions upon ...
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... grace , we have a man who , in some shape or other , will radiate forth from him a mission- ary and a beneficent influence . Are we blessings ? Have we been blessed ? If we have , we shall aid to bless others . We may test , or weigh ...
... grace , we have a man who , in some shape or other , will radiate forth from him a mission- ary and a beneficent influence . Are we blessings ? Have we been blessed ? If we have , we shall aid to bless others . We may test , or weigh ...
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... In blessings on your head . " Judge not the Lord by feeble sense , But trust him for his grace ; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face . • " His purposes will ripen fast , Unfolding every 3 THE PATRIARCH'S SHIELD . 25.
... In blessings on your head . " Judge not the Lord by feeble sense , But trust him for his grace ; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face . • " His purposes will ripen fast , Unfolding every 3 THE PATRIARCH'S SHIELD . 25.
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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 1 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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 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 105 - And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked : 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds...