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... strange preparations for a burnt - sacrifice- the sky reddening as if it blushed at the folly of the priests of Baal - the sun sloping slowly to the West , and falling aslant upon the pale faces of that unweary multitude , rapt in fixed ...
... strange preparations for a burnt - sacrifice- the sky reddening as if it blushed at the folly of the priests of Baal - the sun sloping slowly to the West , and falling aslant upon the pale faces of that unweary multitude , rapt in fixed ...
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... strange land , and by the river of the modern Babylon , one of the songs of Zion . In his later years the study of prophecy absorbed him , and we smile at the kindly aberrations which devised portable wool- packs to save the lives at ...
... strange land , and by the river of the modern Babylon , one of the songs of Zion . In his later years the study of prophecy absorbed him , and we smile at the kindly aberrations which devised portable wool- packs to save the lives at ...
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... strange sweet- ness , a mind keen to apprehend , a memory strong to retain , a constant presence of mind , and a thorough knowledge of the human heart , and of the easiest way to reach it . He fulfilled the advocate's noblest duty , and ...
... strange sweet- ness , a mind keen to apprehend , a memory strong to retain , a constant presence of mind , and a thorough knowledge of the human heart , and of the easiest way to reach it . He fulfilled the advocate's noblest duty , and ...
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... strange - don't you think ? -if amid the multi- tudes of the heavenly hosts , the multitudes of earth's ransomed ones that we are to see in heaven , we should see all but those we most fondly and fervently long to see ! Strange , if in ...
... strange - don't you think ? -if amid the multi- tudes of the heavenly hosts , the multitudes of earth's ransomed ones that we are to see in heaven , we should see all but those we most fondly and fervently long to see ! Strange , if in ...
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... glorify God . There is in our imperfect nature a strange tendency to the indulgence of scepticism . The very craving of the mind after knowledge , if un- Printed by HAYMAN BROTHERS & Co. , 13 , Gough 22 REV . W. MORLEY PUNSHON , M.A..
... glorify God . There is in our imperfect nature a strange tendency to the indulgence of scepticism . The very craving of the mind after knowledge , if un- Printed by HAYMAN BROTHERS & Co. , 13 , Gough 22 REV . W. MORLEY PUNSHON , M.A..
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Page 22 - Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost, which is within you ? Again he saith, You are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
Page 15 - No, by no means, I will not stir, neither will I have the meeting dismissed for this. Come, be of good cheer; let us not be daunted; our cause is good, we need not be ashamed of it; to preach God's Word, is so good a work, that we shall be well rewarded, if we suffer for that...
Page 15 - God of his mercy should choose me to go upon the forlorn hope in this country; that is, to be the first, that should be opposed, for the gospel ; if I should fly, it might be a discouragement to the whole body that might follow after.
Page 15 - ... end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm, or be found to come over again without special licence from the king, you must stretch by the neck for it, I tell you plainly ; ' — and so he bid my jailer have me away.
Page 15 - You must be had back again to prison, and there lie for three months following ; and at three months' end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service, and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if, after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm...
Page 19 - Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory...
Page 20 - Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; and if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither would they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
Page 19 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be ; but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Page 15 - I told him, as to this matter, I was at a point with him; for if I were out of prison today, I would preach the Gospel again tomorrow, by the help of God.
Page 12 - ... faithful to duty — to open the world's dim eye to the majesty of conscience — to gather and instruct the orphans bereft of a father's blessing and of a mother's prayer — to care for the outcast and abandoned, who have drunk in iniquity with their mother's milk, whom the priest and the...