Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God, and of His Providence Throughout All Nature, Volume 1D. Shaw and Company, 1800 - Devotional calendars |
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... thing in nature tends to the good of man- kind , The influence which the cold has upon health , A temperature always the same would not be good for the earth , Page 72 7 . 96 76 79 82 85 88 91 93 96 98 ΙΟΙ 104 106 108 110 113 The use of ...
... thing in nature tends to the good of man- kind , The influence which the cold has upon health , A temperature always the same would not be good for the earth , Page 72 7 . 96 76 79 82 85 88 91 93 96 98 ΙΟΙ 104 106 108 110 113 The use of ...
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... thing relating to me was to contribute towards fulfilling his beneficent views . With this first day of the year ... things are visible to God , and all are settled according to his decrees , which are full of wisdom and goodness . If ...
... thing relating to me was to contribute towards fulfilling his beneficent views . With this first day of the year ... things are visible to God , and all are settled according to his decrees , which are full of wisdom and goodness . If ...
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... thing in nature , how great would be our admiration at the wisdom and goodness of its Au- thor ! But , however incapable we are of forming to ourselves an idea of the whole of his works , the little we understand of it gives us ...
... thing in nature , how great would be our admiration at the wisdom and goodness of its Au- thor ! But , however incapable we are of forming to ourselves an idea of the whole of his works , the little we understand of it gives us ...
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... things offer daily , which ought to ex- cite our attention , and our admiration . The for- mation of a child in the womb of its mother , is as great a miracle of the power and wisdom of God , as the creation of the first man , formed ...
... things offer daily , which ought to ex- cite our attention , and our admiration . The for- mation of a child in the womb of its mother , is as great a miracle of the power and wisdom of God , as the creation of the first man , formed ...
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... thing con- vinces me , that my faculties , my state , the dura- tion of my existence , does not depend on my will : It is God , who , by a secret and absolute power , maintains in me , strength , motion , and existence . If my breath is ...
... thing con- vinces me , that my faculties , my state , the dura- tion of my existence , does not depend on my will : It is God , who , by a secret and absolute power , maintains in me , strength , motion , and existence . If my breath is ...
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Page 276 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 47 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot : who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 49 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 48 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 46 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 49 - For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
Page 48 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: Which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, And the pillars thereof tremble.
Page 47 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 48 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Page 257 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...