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... look into thine heart , and hast no in- clination to self - acquaintance , read no further , lay aside this book ; for thou wilt find nothing here that will flatter thy self - esteem , but , perhaps , some . thing that may abate it ...
... look into thine heart , and hast no in- clination to self - acquaintance , read no further , lay aside this book ; for thou wilt find nothing here that will flatter thy self - esteem , but , perhaps , some . thing that may abate it ...
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... look back but a few years , and thou wast nothing ! And how didst thou spring out of that nothing ? Thou couldst not ... looks like a too presumptuous curiosity . A more needful and im- portant enquiry is , What did he place thee here ...
... look back but a few years , and thou wast nothing ! And how didst thou spring out of that nothing ? Thou couldst not ... looks like a too presumptuous curiosity . A more needful and im- portant enquiry is , What did he place thee here ...
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... look back upon a million of ages hence ! For know , O my soul , that thy self - con- sciousness and reflecting faculties will not leave thee with thy body ; but will follow thee after death , and be the instrument of unspeakable plea ...
... look back upon a million of ages hence ! For know , O my soul , that thy self - con- sciousness and reflecting faculties will not leave thee with thy body ; but will follow thee after death , and be the instrument of unspeakable plea ...
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... looks at the hearts of all his creatures , will accept of nothing but what comes from thence . He demands the adoration of our whole souls , which is most justly due to him , who formed them , and gave them the very capacities to know ...
... looks at the hearts of all his creatures , will accept of nothing but what comes from thence . He demands the adoration of our whole souls , which is most justly due to him , who formed them , and gave them the very capacities to know ...
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... look then . Take a view of it as past ; and , whatever pains it may cost you , think whether it will not be abundantly recompensed by the inward peace and pleasure which arises from a conscious- ness of having acted right . It certainly ...
... look then . Take a view of it as past ; and , whatever pains it may cost you , think whether it will not be abundantly recompensed by the inward peace and pleasure which arises from a conscious- ness of having acted right . It certainly ...
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Page 204 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good ; let him seek peace and ensue it.
Page 230 - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 222 - When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me; For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Page 204 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Page 229 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming in the which all that are in their graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation ?
Page 47 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Page 83 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 211 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 200 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Page 197 - The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.