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... thou- sand years ago , when the Psalmist sang : - " When I consider thy heavens , the work of thy fingers , The moon and the stars , which thou hast ordained ; What is man , that thou art mindful of him ? And the son of man , that thou ...
... thou- sand years ago , when the Psalmist sang : - " When I consider thy heavens , the work of thy fingers , The moon and the stars , which thou hast ordained ; What is man , that thou art mindful of him ? And the son of man , that thou ...
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... thou Bethlehem wast but little among the thousands of Judah till out of thee came forth the promised Messiah . What was Pales- tine but a very little country among the kingdoms of the world , and what is the world but a little planet in ...
... thou Bethlehem wast but little among the thousands of Judah till out of thee came forth the promised Messiah . What was Pales- tine but a very little country among the kingdoms of the world , and what is the world but a little planet in ...
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... thou- sands of other worlds around us , the question becomes deeply interesting , Are there in these distant stars fellow - beings like ourselves , who think and feel , and love and worship , as we do ? or are we alone in the universe ...
... thou- sands of other worlds around us , the question becomes deeply interesting , Are there in these distant stars fellow - beings like ourselves , who think and feel , and love and worship , as we do ? or are we alone in the universe ...
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... thou- sand feet . 6. The commencement of their combustion took place sometimes eighty miles above the earth , and their extinc- tion sometimes took place thirty miles high . 7. They were composed of light and transparent mate- rials ...
... thou- sand feet . 6. The commencement of their combustion took place sometimes eighty miles above the earth , and their extinc- tion sometimes took place thirty miles high . 7. They were composed of light and transparent mate- rials ...
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... thou- sand miles breadth ( and this is more than twenty times the depth of our whole atmosphere ) would only be the ninetieth part of Jupiter's diameter . We must also con- sider that , with such a depth as we suppose , and with such a ...
... thou- sand miles breadth ( and this is more than twenty times the depth of our whole atmosphere ) would only be the ninetieth part of Jupiter's diameter . We must also con- sider that , with such a depth as we suppose , and with such a ...
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Page 176 - And these signs shall follow them that believe ; In my name shall they cast out devils ; they shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
Page 352 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Page 258 - For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Page 178 - And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace be unto you.
Page 210 - Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb . and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. 23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the Son of David ? 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
Page 176 - And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
Page 129 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself; for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Page 334 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 137 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 352 - Lest Satan should get an advantage of us : for we are not ignorant of his devices.