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... revealed ! How many of its springs is he able to move , and in their operation make them subservient to his ease , his interest , and his enjoy- ment ! From sacred history it appears that arts were almost coeval with the first born of ...
... revealed ! How many of its springs is he able to move , and in their operation make them subservient to his ease , his interest , and his enjoy- ment ! From sacred history it appears that arts were almost coeval with the first born of ...
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... reveals our duty , and brings " life and immortality to light . " The darkness which invested the world before the crea- tion of light was not more dense and sombre than that moral darkness which must have prevailed on earth had ...
... reveals our duty , and brings " life and immortality to light . " The darkness which invested the world before the crea- tion of light was not more dense and sombre than that moral darkness which must have prevailed on earth had ...
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... reveals their danger and their sinfulness , their duty and the way of recovery . If men perceive the moral beau- ty of divine truth , receive the love of it , and by it are made wise unto salvation , there is saving illumination ...
... reveals their danger and their sinfulness , their duty and the way of recovery . If men perceive the moral beau- ty of divine truth , receive the love of it , and by it are made wise unto salvation , there is saving illumination ...
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... revealed as " the brightness of the Father's glory , " Immanuel , God with us , the all - sufficient Saviour , " wisdom , and righteousness , sanctification and redemption . " To them he cannot fail to be " the chief among ten thousand ...
... revealed as " the brightness of the Father's glory , " Immanuel , God with us , the all - sufficient Saviour , " wisdom , and righteousness , sanctification and redemption . " To them he cannot fail to be " the chief among ten thousand ...
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... reveal the hidden evils of the heart , exercise faith , and patience , and they promote a spirit of dependence on the grace , and promises of God . Sadness afflicts them for a season , but hope , and comfort are restored . " They sowed ...
... reveal the hidden evils of the heart , exercise faith , and patience , and they promote a spirit of dependence on the grace , and promises of God . Sadness afflicts them for a season , but hope , and comfort are restored . " They sowed ...
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Page 78 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 215 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac : the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south : and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 278 - And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey...
Page 136 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. " Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 139 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 177 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Page 274 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan...
Page 214 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 218 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 364 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.