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... object with a grasp vastly more firm , and it is more unyielding than obstinacy itself . It never will give up . Though he slay me , yet will I trust in him . " This is not obstinacy - no ; it is faith ; that faith which " has subdued ...
... object with a grasp vastly more firm , and it is more unyielding than obstinacy itself . It never will give up . Though he slay me , yet will I trust in him . " This is not obstinacy - no ; it is faith ; that faith which " has subdued ...
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... object of their worship is no more a reality , than the Jupiter of the Greeks , or the Brahma of the Hindoos . But admit the infinite majesty and excel- lence of our Maker , and you cannot deny that all rational creatures are un- der ...
... object of their worship is no more a reality , than the Jupiter of the Greeks , or the Brahma of the Hindoos . But admit the infinite majesty and excel- lence of our Maker , and you cannot deny that all rational creatures are un- der ...
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... object ? When any thing earthly engrosses your affections , does it not occupy your thoughts ? Does it not give direction to your powers of mind and body ? Does it not assume the throne in your souls , and compel every opposing ...
... object ? When any thing earthly engrosses your affections , does it not occupy your thoughts ? Does it not give direction to your powers of mind and body ? Does it not assume the throne in your souls , and compel every opposing ...
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... object to show the practicability of infant piety . I now remark , that it not only may exist , but it actually has existed . Samuel , Josiah , Jeremiah , John the Baptist , and Timothy , are among the instances left on sacred record ...
... object to show the practicability of infant piety . I now remark , that it not only may exist , but it actually has existed . Samuel , Josiah , Jeremiah , John the Baptist , and Timothy , are among the instances left on sacred record ...
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... objects . From you it is to receive its first impressions , that may give a mold to its character that will last through eternity , and be instrumental in pre- paring it for heaven or for hell . But this is not all . The influence which ...
... objects . From you it is to receive its first impressions , that may give a mold to its character that will last through eternity , and be instrumental in pre- paring it for heaven or for hell . But this is not all . The influence which ...
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Page 295 - And they spake unto him the word of the Lord and to all .that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes ; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Page 97 - And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever...
Page 349 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 106 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, Written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 325 - That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. 8 And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord ; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Page 97 - The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.
Page 285 - And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 125 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 128 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Page 295 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.