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... lefs fault , yet it had been lefs foolish and abfurd , to have lived without any notice or regard of him ; as fome ungrateful Perfons deal by their Friends and Patrons , when they have fet them up in the World , and enable them to live ...
... lefs fault , yet it had been lefs foolish and abfurd , to have lived without any notice or regard of him ; as fome ungrateful Perfons deal by their Friends and Patrons , when they have fet them up in the World , and enable them to live ...
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... lefs the Divine Wisdom and Counsel determines Natural Causes to the producing fuch particular Effects . Great Part of the Happiness or Mife- ries of this Life is owing to the good or bad Influences of Natural Causes , that if God take ...
... lefs the Divine Wisdom and Counsel determines Natural Causes to the producing fuch particular Effects . Great Part of the Happiness or Mife- ries of this Life is owing to the good or bad Influences of Natural Causes , that if God take ...
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... lefs notice of Providence , and would have lefs reafon to do it , fince they would be the more abfolute Mafters of their own Fortunes ; a powerful combination of Sinners , managed by fome crafty Politicians , would govern the World ...
... lefs notice of Providence , and would have lefs reafon to do it , fince they would be the more abfolute Mafters of their own Fortunes ; a powerful combination of Sinners , managed by fome crafty Politicians , would govern the World ...
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... lefs we can understand it , but the more fafe we are under its Conduct : So abfurd is it to complain that we cannot understand all the Depths and Secrets of Providence , that we may as reasonably com- plain , That an Excellent and ...
... lefs we can understand it , but the more fafe we are under its Conduct : So abfurd is it to complain that we cannot understand all the Depths and Secrets of Providence , that we may as reasonably com- plain , That an Excellent and ...
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... lefs fo . Those who now refolve all the uncertain Changes and Revolutions that hap- pen , into Neceffity and Fate , would have more Reason to do fo , did Providence always fhew the fame Face and Appearances , as the Hea- vens do . But ...
... lefs fo . Those who now refolve all the uncertain Changes and Revolutions that hap- pen , into Neceffity and Fate , would have more Reason to do fo , did Providence always fhew the fame Face and Appearances , as the Hea- vens do . But ...
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Page 250 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 7 - Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 62 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Page 426 - For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive ; And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Page 395 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress ; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 6 - Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his mercy ; To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Page 136 - Righteous art Thou, O Lord, when I plead with Thee : yet let me talk with Thee of Thy judgments : wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Page 336 - But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Page 426 - The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Page 58 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.