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... looks for in their season " . And as the heart is likened to the hard ground , so the Divine doctrine is compared to the softening rain or dew which the thirsty soil drinks in so eagerly , and by which it is rendered fruitful . Or ...
... looks for in their season " . And as the heart is likened to the hard ground , so the Divine doctrine is compared to the softening rain or dew which the thirsty soil drinks in so eagerly , and by which it is rendered fruitful . Or ...
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... looks for fruit in due season ; and too often finds none . He is unwilling , however , to relinquish his hope of a return for all his labour ; and continues , year by year , to prune , with the greatest skill , as well as patience , the ...
... looks for fruit in due season ; and too often finds none . He is unwilling , however , to relinquish his hope of a return for all his labour ; and continues , year by year , to prune , with the greatest skill , as well as patience , the ...
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... looks for ! Let us beware , lest we provoke Him at length to lay His axe to the root . It may yet be " well " with us in time , and in eternity , if we use to good purpose the interval which is won for us by the mediation of our blessed ...
... looks for ! Let us beware , lest we provoke Him at length to lay His axe to the root . It may yet be " well " with us in time , and in eternity , if we use to good purpose the interval which is won for us by the mediation of our blessed ...
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... look calmly forth upon the threatening waves around him ; since , amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal life , his heart is there surely fixed , where true joys are to be found . Those who " make shipwreck concerning faith ...
... look calmly forth upon the threatening waves around him ; since , amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal life , his heart is there surely fixed , where true joys are to be found . Those who " make shipwreck concerning faith ...
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... Look now toward heaven , and tell the stars , if thou be able to number them : and He said unto him , So shall thy seed be . Thus also we find that false teachers are called “ wan- dering stars 2 ; " and it is therefore implied , that ...
... Look now toward heaven , and tell the stars , if thou be able to number them : and He said unto him , So shall thy seed be . Thus also we find that false teachers are called “ wan- dering stars 2 ; " and it is therefore implied , that ...
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Popular passages
Page 74 - ... and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Page 56 - For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Page 44 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 60 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 36 - Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Page 65 - These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 25 - How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 74 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2.
Page 63 - And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And He saith unto them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Page 34 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; "knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.