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... look into , was to the tasteful and erudite Greek , foolishness . And we fear that cases very analogous to this may be witnessed at the present day . But why , my hearers , should it be so ? Why should so vast a dissimilarity of moral ...
... look into , was to the tasteful and erudite Greek , foolishness . And we fear that cases very analogous to this may be witnessed at the present day . But why , my hearers , should it be so ? Why should so vast a dissimilarity of moral ...
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... look with perfect apathy upon the present system of exertions for evangelizing the heathen ; and we have been greatly misinformed , if there be not another , though a very different class , who consider these exertions a subject for ...
... look with perfect apathy upon the present system of exertions for evangelizing the heathen ; and we have been greatly misinformed , if there be not another , though a very different class , who consider these exertions a subject for ...
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... look death , every moment , in the face , and never shrink from its purpose . It is a principle which will " make a man intrepidly dare every thing which can attack or oppose him within the whole sphere of mortality , retain his purpose ...
... look death , every moment , in the face , and never shrink from its purpose . It is a principle which will " make a man intrepidly dare every thing which can attack or oppose him within the whole sphere of mortality , retain his purpose ...
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... look at nations who once believed as we do , now contending for what we consider fatal error , they may assure us that our cause is declining . To all this we have two answers . First , the assump- tion that our cause is declining , is ...
... look at nations who once believed as we do , now contending for what we consider fatal error , they may assure us that our cause is declining . To all this we have two answers . First , the assump- tion that our cause is declining , is ...
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... look so much like going forth in serious earnest , to take possession of the kingdom and dominion , and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven , as at this very day . We see , then , nothing in the signs of the times which ...
... look so much like going forth in serious earnest , to take possession of the kingdom and dominion , and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven , as at this very day . We see , then , nothing in the signs of the times which ...
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Page 155 - For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Page 178 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Page 294 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Page 184 - Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height ; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 22 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, ' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 66 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.
Page 184 - How shall I give thee up, Ephraim ? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim ? Mine heart is turned within me, My repentings are kindled together.
Page 263 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 37 - Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature ; and, lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world.
Page 95 - Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth.