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Page 13
... understand , " he said , in a tone of mingled pity and contempt ; " it utterly passes me to understand how you can keep to this child's faith of yours now , when you see everything that you have One of the Few who were Killed . 13.
... understand , " he said , in a tone of mingled pity and contempt ; " it utterly passes me to understand how you can keep to this child's faith of yours now , when you see everything that you have One of the Few who were Killed . 13.
Page 27
... keeping with himself , but in as great a contrast as it was possible for anything to be with the gaunt , slatternly old woman with whom he was good - humouredly chatting , and with the squalid , untidy hut which she shared with a ...
... keeping with himself , but in as great a contrast as it was possible for anything to be with the gaunt , slatternly old woman with whom he was good - humouredly chatting , and with the squalid , untidy hut which she shared with a ...
Page 55
... keep and to defend our Covenant with our lives ! And what all her children vow to maintain , do they not pledge their country to ? " A quick nod of the head signified growing com- prehension of the matter , but , before anything more ...
... keep and to defend our Covenant with our lives ! And what all her children vow to maintain , do they not pledge their country to ? " A quick nod of the head signified growing com- prehension of the matter , but , before anything more ...
Page 62
... keep sacred a sacred vow , will God refuse His aid that it shall be done ? " The simple question struck home , the keener perhaps , that it was but a repetition of sentences and assertions put in every variety of form , and on all ...
... keep sacred a sacred vow , will God refuse His aid that it shall be done ? " The simple question struck home , the keener perhaps , that it was but a repetition of sentences and assertions put in every variety of form , and on all ...
Page 66
... keeping . It was not far to seek . A small piece of folded paper , and as he opened it he went on : " Mair than that , he adds the cooward sin o ' hypo- crisy to his other crimes . He writes to his freend , good Robert Douglas , as ...
... keeping . It was not far to seek . A small piece of folded paper , and as he opened it he went on : " Mair than that , he adds the cooward sin o ' hypo- crisy to his other crimes . He writes to his freend , good Robert Douglas , as ...
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Page 231 - As smoke is driven away, so drive them away : As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of GOD.
Page 25 - And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate ; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
Page 343 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 336 - I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 16 - One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee ; till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Page 43 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Page 16 - And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you : for the Lord is a God of judgement; blessed are all they that wait for Him.
Page 124 - That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, prelacy (that is, Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending ou that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness...
Page 86 - But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 126 - ... and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues, and that the Lord may be one, and His name one in the three kingdoms.