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... land , engaged as a Missionary among the Heathen , -will , he trusts , form some excuse for the want of care and correction , which must ( he fears ) be observable to a critical eye . Still , he would not leave it open to suspicion ...
... land , engaged as a Missionary among the Heathen , -will , he trusts , form some excuse for the want of care and correction , which must ( he fears ) be observable to a critical eye . Still , he would not leave it open to suspicion ...
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... land . Nature herself , in the irrational animals , instinctively teaches this prudential course . Does not the parent bird stretch out her wings to shield her young ones , and gather her chickens under her feathers , to screen them ...
... land . Nature herself , in the irrational animals , instinctively teaches this prudential course . Does not the parent bird stretch out her wings to shield her young ones , and gather her chickens under her feathers , to screen them ...
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... land , and amongst all classes of the com- munity . Does it become us to complain of the fruitless- ness of our toils , because we have just put forth our little finger , and not yet succeeded in removing a mountain ? Either the means ...
... land , and amongst all classes of the com- munity . Does it become us to complain of the fruitless- ness of our toils , because we have just put forth our little finger , and not yet succeeded in removing a mountain ? Either the means ...
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... land , Infidelity and Profaneness will not slumber ; they too are busy with their emissaries , in spreading the taint of moral pestilence , and promulgating the tenets of a libertine and sceptical creed . So that while Bibles and ...
... land , Infidelity and Profaneness will not slumber ; they too are busy with their emissaries , in spreading the taint of moral pestilence , and promulgating the tenets of a libertine and sceptical creed . So that while Bibles and ...
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... land . But at the same time it ought not to be forgotten , that whilst a nation publicly assents to the truth of religion , it binds itself by a solemn contract to fulfil all its obligations towards God , and its own members , and if it ...
... land . But at the same time it ought not to be forgotten , that whilst a nation publicly assents to the truth of religion , it binds itself by a solemn contract to fulfil all its obligations towards God , and its own members , and if it ...
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Page 89 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their hahitation, tchich sing among the branches.
Page 89 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
Page 232 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 133 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? who hath babbling ? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 89 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 249 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 209 - The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 240 - Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted ; but the rich in that he is made low; because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Page 134 - It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine ; nor for princes strong drink : 5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Page 133 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.