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... gold in the bowels of the earth , first pierce the ground to a great depth , and when they have found a vein of ore , they break and carefully sift the earth , that no part of the metal may escape . Indeed such is the trouble to procure ...
... gold in the bowels of the earth , first pierce the ground to a great depth , and when they have found a vein of ore , they break and carefully sift the earth , that no part of the metal may escape . Indeed such is the trouble to procure ...
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... gold , or of the most precious stones - they make them " rich in faith , and heirs of that king- dom which the blessed God has promised to them that love him . " The book most read next to the Bible , you say , is , " Moore's Almanac ...
... gold , or of the most precious stones - they make them " rich in faith , and heirs of that king- dom which the blessed God has promised to them that love him . " The book most read next to the Bible , you say , is , " Moore's Almanac ...
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... gold ; and that his angelic ministers were men arrayed in white garments , and furnished with wings to ren- der them more expeditious in executing their sove- reign's orders . They take every thing spoken of God in scripture in a ...
... gold ; and that his angelic ministers were men arrayed in white garments , and furnished with wings to ren- der them more expeditious in executing their sove- reign's orders . They take every thing spoken of God in scripture in a ...
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... gold as a metal , with gold as the cur- rent coin of the state ; for in these two senses this highly - esteemed mineral now bears a very different value . An ounce of gold in coin is worth 37. 17s . 10žd . that is , it is actually ...
... gold as a metal , with gold as the cur- rent coin of the state ; for in these two senses this highly - esteemed mineral now bears a very different value . An ounce of gold in coin is worth 37. 17s . 10žd . that is , it is actually ...
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... gold of the same weight . Indeed , for the obvious reasons of the labour that is bestowed on it , and of its having the stamp of authority on its surface to make it legal tender for all purchasable com- modities , it ought , according ...
... gold of the same weight . Indeed , for the obvious reasons of the labour that is bestowed on it , and of its having the stamp of authority on its surface to make it legal tender for all purchasable com- modities , it ought , according ...
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Page 169 - That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Page 163 - Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world : but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Page 150 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 143 - Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.
Page 98 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 144 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 116 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord...
Page 90 - All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 125 - AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION IN TIMES PAST IN THE LUSTS OF OUR FLESH, FULFILLING THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND OF THE MIND; AND WERE BY NATURE THE CHILDREN OF WRATH, EVEN AS OTHERS.
Page 162 - And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins ; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.