Instructive Extracts, Comprising Religious and Moral Instruction, Natural History, Elementary Science, Accounts of Remarkable Persons, Places [etc.]: With a Selection of Passages from the British Poets [etc.]Oliver & Boyd, 1843 |
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... hearts of men ; without having previously written or done any thing , that should excite the expectation , or attract the atten- tion and admiration of the world ; offers himself at once to the Jewish nation , not merely as a preacher ...
... hearts of men ; without having previously written or done any thing , that should excite the expectation , or attract the atten- tion and admiration of the world ; offers himself at once to the Jewish nation , not merely as a preacher ...
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... hearts and reform their lives . Instead of indulging in ease and lux- ury , he called upon them to take up their cross and follow him through sorrows and suffering ; to pluck out a right eye , and to cut off a right arm ; to leave ...
... hearts and reform their lives . Instead of indulging in ease and lux- ury , he called upon them to take up their cross and follow him through sorrows and suffering ; to pluck out a right eye , and to cut off a right arm ; to leave ...
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... heart , and sanctity of life , which he required ; the communications of God's Holy Spirit to assist our own feeble endeavours here ; and a crown of immortal glory to recompense us here- after . The morality he taught was the purest ...
... heart , and sanctity of life , which he required ; the communications of God's Holy Spirit to assist our own feeble endeavours here ; and a crown of immortal glory to recompense us here- after . The morality he taught was the purest ...
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... heart , and dragged to light all its artifices , subtleties , and evasions . He discovered every thought , as it arose in the mind ; he detected every irregular de- sire , before it ripened into action . He manifested , at the same time ...
... heart , and dragged to light all its artifices , subtleties , and evasions . He discovered every thought , as it arose in the mind ; he detected every irregular de- sire , before it ripened into action . He manifested , at the same time ...
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... heart and cleansing the affections : from tasting of the fruit of the vine after the paschal supper , to the celebration of an eternal fes- tival of freedom , rest , and happiness in another world . Those that were fishers he teaches ...
... heart and cleansing the affections : from tasting of the fruit of the vine after the paschal supper , to the celebration of an eternal fes- tival of freedom , rest , and happiness in another world . Those that were fishers he teaches ...
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Page 233 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the Prince, that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary : and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 233 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 230 - And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Page 282 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 324 - GREAT God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created ! The Judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated ! The trumpet sounds ; the graves restore The dead which they contained before ; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him...
Page 282 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 324 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 296 - AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove...
Page 234 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Page 231 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.