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... happiness of the World ? - What are even the excellencies of human na- ture , if human nature be all ? -If there is no heavenly superintendence , no supreme and compassionate goodness , enfolding us amid the gloom and wretchedness of ...
... happiness of the World ? - What are even the excellencies of human na- ture , if human nature be all ? -If there is no heavenly superintendence , no supreme and compassionate goodness , enfolding us amid the gloom and wretchedness of ...
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... happiness , displayed in their simple and beneficent lives , by Her and that noble - minded Stranger , whom every Briton must embrace as a countryman and a brother in his heart , -will ever be remembered as a model alike for princes and ...
... happiness , displayed in their simple and beneficent lives , by Her and that noble - minded Stranger , whom every Briton must embrace as a countryman and a brother in his heart , -will ever be remembered as a model alike for princes and ...
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... happiness , and hope , revolved , is , by an irre- versible decree , for ever gone ! My melancholy tribute can only now be offered at her tomb . And my sad duty has , too soon , alas ! been li- mited to pray , as I do from the bottom of ...
... happiness , and hope , revolved , is , by an irre- versible decree , for ever gone ! My melancholy tribute can only now be offered at her tomb . And my sad duty has , too soon , alas ! been li- mited to pray , as I do from the bottom of ...
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... happiness , and amidst the mutual warmth of our affections , we are apt , at times , to feel most intensely the transitoriness of all mortal enjoy- ments . When the harp , and the viol , and wine are in our feasts , the hand - writing ...
... happiness , and amidst the mutual warmth of our affections , we are apt , at times , to feel most intensely the transitoriness of all mortal enjoy- ments . When the harp , and the viol , and wine are in our feasts , the hand - writing ...
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... wishes for happiness and prosperity . It is , in a word , the hour of Christian charity in its simplest and most natural form . Yet , while we open our hearts , B under the sanction of Heaven , to all those kind SERMON II . 17.
... wishes for happiness and prosperity . It is , in a word , the hour of Christian charity in its simplest and most natural form . Yet , while we open our hearts , B under the sanction of Heaven , to all those kind SERMON II . 17.
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Page 381 - Then Peter said unto them ; Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins ; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Page 62 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Page 170 - And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was upon him; and it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Page 380 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know...
Page 344 - ALMIGHTY GOD, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility ; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
Page 126 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 446 - I know thy works : behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it; for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Page 223 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Page 380 - God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know : him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain : whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death : because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Page 170 - Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.