Social Evils: And Their Remedy, Volume 1Smith, Elder and Company, 1837 - Great Britain |
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... prayer , from an old book they had had in use many years , and we were all a - bed and asleep before the clock struck ten . I don't know how it was , but I did not like to tell my wife much about Mrs. Philips and the Smiths ; I merely ...
... prayer , from an old book they had had in use many years , and we were all a - bed and asleep before the clock struck ten . I don't know how it was , but I did not like to tell my wife much about Mrs. Philips and the Smiths ; I merely ...
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... pray God you may ! But it is a rash project to be trying first this luring way and then the other ! You may , perhaps , trifle too long with time and opportunity , and be snatched away to eternity while still wandering on in a false way ...
... pray God you may ! But it is a rash project to be trying first this luring way and then the other ! You may , perhaps , trifle too long with time and opportunity , and be snatched away to eternity while still wandering on in a false way ...
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... prayer , the only return He made for every devilish cruelty , Father , forgive them , for they know not what they do ' - who ever called Him hypocrite ? " The aged speaker stopped again for a little time ; he appeared affected by the ...
... prayer , the only return He made for every devilish cruelty , Father , forgive them , for they know not what they do ' - who ever called Him hypocrite ? " The aged speaker stopped again for a little time ; he appeared affected by the ...
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... prays in one prevailing name ) the eye of the spirit loses at once its blindness , the thick scales fall off , you look at once into the world revealed to See 2 Cor . chap . iv . 4 . † Isa . chap . xlii . 7 . Let the spiritual man . Let ...
... prays in one prevailing name ) the eye of the spirit loses at once its blindness , the thick scales fall off , you look at once into the world revealed to See 2 Cor . chap . iv . 4 . † Isa . chap . xlii . 7 . Let the spiritual man . Let ...
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... pray for this great gift ? " Collinson smiled— I must own that I was beginning to feel serious and to be impressed ... pray ? You do not now set yourself against prayer - you have always been used to pray . - When a religious character ...
... pray for this great gift ? " Collinson smiled— I must own that I was beginning to feel serious and to be impressed ... pray ? You do not now set yourself against prayer - you have always been used to pray . - When a religious character ...
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Page 111 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 100 - And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 94 - Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching : verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Page 79 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him ; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Page 92 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 99 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Page 82 - My good Child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace ; which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer.
Page 1 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 27 - In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Page 127 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.