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... appear more strikingly , when we reflect that God has thus given for our model an example of nothing less than absolute per- fection . For such an example is of all others best adapted to the wants and to the character of our nature ...
... appear more strikingly , when we reflect that God has thus given for our model an example of nothing less than absolute per- fection . For such an example is of all others best adapted to the wants and to the character of our nature ...
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... appears , Drawn out in living characters . Such was thy truth , and such thy zeal , Such deference to thy Father's will , - Thy love and meekness so divine , I would transcribe and make them mine . Cold mountains , and the midnight air ...
... appears , Drawn out in living characters . Such was thy truth , and such thy zeal , Such deference to thy Father's will , - Thy love and meekness so divine , I would transcribe and make them mine . Cold mountains , and the midnight air ...
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... appears to be several times used , so as at least to include this sense . We may there- fore consider the writer , not merely as repeating or explaining , in the second member of the sentence , what he had affirmed in the first ; but as ...
... appears to be several times used , so as at least to include this sense . We may there- fore consider the writer , not merely as repeating or explaining , in the second member of the sentence , what he had affirmed in the first ; but as ...
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... appears , then , that the divine word is productive of two most salutary effects on the human kind ; the first on the understanding , the second on the heart . The first introduces the light of knowledge , the second the lustre of ...
... appears , then , that the divine word is productive of two most salutary effects on the human kind ; the first on the understanding , the second on the heart . The first introduces the light of knowledge , the second the lustre of ...
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... appear to have their hearts touched , almost as soon as divine truth dawns on their intellectual powers . Holiness , nevertheless , is , in all cases , connected with the perception and love of what God has revealed in his holy word ...
... appear to have their hearts touched , almost as soon as divine truth dawns on their intellectual powers . Holiness , nevertheless , is , in all cases , connected with the perception and love of what God has revealed in his holy word ...
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Page 283 - Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 195 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Page 188 - Master, all these have I observed from my youth. 21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Page 204 - Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 39 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ? For we know Him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
Page 305 - And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Page 314 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth : For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Page 152 - And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Page 307 - Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities : for we know not what we should pray for as we ought : but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Page 188 - The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.