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Page 43 - And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
Page 93 - AND again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
Page 86 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Page 65 - Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law ; and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Page 36 - The Lord hath made all things " for himself, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Page 59 - The good that I would, I do not ; but the evil I would not, that I do.
Page 73 - How often would I have gathered thy children together — but ye would not.
Page 29 - God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance...
Page 18 - I acknowledge this," says he, " to be my doctrine, that not merely by the permission of God, but by his secret counsel, Mam Jell, and by his fall drew all his posterity into eternal ruin."*
Page 53 - Therefore, he enjoins all who would advance in the celestial school, to become fools, and to be emptied of their own sense. In fine, God everywhere claims for himself the light of intelligence ; and time and paper would fail, were I to gather the proofs, which so convict common sense of blindness, that whoever would learn of God, must renounce his own wisdom, and seek light from heaven.