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... live . " All felf - devifed methods of efcape from the fascinating power of the world , will fail ; but the faith which leads us to glory in the crofs of CHRIST , will insure to us a triumphant conqueft , as well as to St. Paul , and ...
... live . " All felf - devifed methods of efcape from the fascinating power of the world , will fail ; but the faith which leads us to glory in the crofs of CHRIST , will insure to us a triumphant conqueft , as well as to St. Paul , and ...
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... defects , without fhewing their remedy . The following rules are recommended , and , by the obfervation of them , our lives . may be focial , without being diffipated , The ec The heart must contain , or be disposed to [ 39 ]
... defects , without fhewing their remedy . The following rules are recommended , and , by the obfervation of them , our lives . may be focial , without being diffipated , The ec The heart must contain , or be disposed to [ 39 ]
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... live in a world of unceafing Viciffitudes , and the changes which take place , with respect to individuals and families , often give the wife Teacher an opportunity of enforcing , with peculiar advantage , fome truth of God . Lastly ...
... live in a world of unceafing Viciffitudes , and the changes which take place , with respect to individuals and families , often give the wife Teacher an opportunity of enforcing , with peculiar advantage , fome truth of God . Lastly ...
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... live in the eyes and minds of others ; but not to God , to their own confciences , to their own fatisfaction in private . There are hearers who live upon hearing ; and there are preachers who live upon preaching . Their reli- gion ...
... live in the eyes and minds of others ; but not to God , to their own confciences , to their own fatisfaction in private . There are hearers who live upon hearing ; and there are preachers who live upon preaching . Their reli- gion ...
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... live . It appears to be indifference to all reli- gion . The higher orders of men have no concern about which is the beft creed , or what are the best or in being allowed to dine at the hofpitable board of a respectable tradefman in the ...
... live . It appears to be indifference to all reli- gion . The higher orders of men have no concern about which is the beft creed , or what are the best or in being allowed to dine at the hofpitable board of a respectable tradefman in the ...
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Page 43 - Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another; and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Page 11 - And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee ; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Page 19 - Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me : thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
Page 7 - They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Page 42 - I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Page 20 - For what man knowcth the things of a man, fave the fpirit of a man which is in him ? Even fo, the things, of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God.
Page 10 - O how great is thy goodnefs, which thou haft laid up for them that fear thee ; which thou haft wrought for them that truft in thee, before the fons of men ! 20 Thou fhalt hide them in the fecret of thy prefence from the pride of man : thou fhalt!
Page 43 - I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work d ." Two doctrines, both of them distinctly Christian, throw their guardian shadows over the lesson.
Page 12 - Oh ! the depth of the riches, both of the wifdom and knowledge of God ! How unfearchable are his judgments, and his ways paft finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been hiscounfellor?