The Christian beacon, ed. by C.B. TaylerCharles Benjamin Tayler 1839 |
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... seen starting from sleep , snatching up their children , gathering together the most moveable or the most valuable articles of property , and preparing hastily for flight . The men must have been seen driving off the cattle to some ...
... seen starting from sleep , snatching up their children , gathering together the most moveable or the most valuable articles of property , and preparing hastily for flight . The men must have been seen driving off the cattle to some ...
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... seen that a Beacon likewise signifies " marks erected , or lights made in the night , to direct navigators in their course , and warn them from rocks , shallows , and sand - banks . " If one part of our office will be to give warning of ...
... seen that a Beacon likewise signifies " marks erected , or lights made in the night , to direct navigators in their course , and warn them from rocks , shallows , and sand - banks . " If one part of our office will be to give warning of ...
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... seen the Red Sea , doubt not of the miracle . Now contrarily I blesse myself , and am thankful that I lived not in the days of Miracles , that I never saw Christ nor his Dis- ciples ; I would not have been one of those Israelites that ...
... seen the Red Sea , doubt not of the miracle . Now contrarily I blesse myself , and am thankful that I lived not in the days of Miracles , that I never saw Christ nor his Dis- ciples ; I would not have been one of those Israelites that ...
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... seen to fall upon Isaiah , Jeremiah , and the other " holy prophets , " who , while they address us in the language of poetry , and " moved , " alike , " by Holy Ghost , " speak each in his own peculiar and appropiate style . How ...
... seen to fall upon Isaiah , Jeremiah , and the other " holy prophets , " who , while they address us in the language of poetry , and " moved , " alike , " by Holy Ghost , " speak each in his own peculiar and appropiate style . How ...
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... seen . I had often read a novel with ease on my poney , but I now found it very difficult to keep my little Homer open at the right place . Still I determined to learn , and tried not to notice the hunt , but suddenly the hare fled past ...
... seen . I had often read a novel with ease on my poney , but I now found it very difficult to keep my little Homer open at the right place . Still I determined to learn , and tried not to notice the hunt , but suddenly the hare fled past ...
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Popular passages
Page 172 - For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof drinketh up my spirit : The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Page 161 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Page 104 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he, being dead, yet speaketh.
Page 160 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 88 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 171 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 48 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
Page 26 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears ; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Page 39 - Sabbath day, to do no work therein ; then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem : and this city shall remain for ever.
Page 34 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed...