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... once been a burning volcano . It has ceased for so many years to throw up either fire or smoke , that the people of the country have never heard their fathers speak of it . Yet the evi- dences that it once did so are so plain , that no ...
... once been a burning volcano . It has ceased for so many years to throw up either fire or smoke , that the people of the country have never heard their fathers speak of it . Yet the evi- dences that it once did so are so plain , that no ...
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... once gleamed with a blaze of flames , and was scorched with fiery heat , is now perpe- tually cased in snow . It is , however , a happy change for the country around , when we remember the disastrous effects of a burning mountain , as ...
... once gleamed with a blaze of flames , and was scorched with fiery heat , is now perpe- tually cased in snow . It is , however , a happy change for the country around , when we remember the disastrous effects of a burning mountain , as ...
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... once more whirled its way round the bright , glorious sun . Twelve months— fifty - two weeks - three hundred and sixty- five days , either of which numbers make a year - have flown away , and we are brought in peace and safety to see ...
... once more whirled its way round the bright , glorious sun . Twelve months— fifty - two weeks - three hundred and sixty- five days , either of which numbers make a year - have flown away , and we are brought in peace and safety to see ...
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... once a large body of Chris- tian children shall put on the armour of light , in order to fight against the kingdom of dark- ness , we may expect that its foundations will be shaken , for the Lord is particularly fond of little children ...
... once a large body of Chris- tian children shall put on the armour of light , in order to fight against the kingdom of dark- ness , we may expect that its foundations will be shaken , for the Lord is particularly fond of little children ...
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... once overthrown , and France , from the midst of its ruins , turning with a cry of joy toward the Gos- pel . Had he but been as prudent as he was zealous , his pious efforts might have proved much more useful to the cause which he loved ...
... once overthrown , and France , from the midst of its ruins , turning with a cry of joy toward the Gos- pel . Had he but been as prudent as he was zealous , his pious efforts might have proved much more useful to the cause which he loved ...
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Page 153 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 31 - 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 59 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Page 65 - And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
Page 182 - No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
Page 72 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones : there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
Page 254 - But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten : as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves : so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Page 246 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him. and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day. he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 78 - Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 124 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.