Scripture Characters: Or, A Practical Improvement of the Principal Histories in the New Testament, Volume 1

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Page 381 - Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you, with all malice ; and be ye kind one to another,, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 101 - Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: and when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers...
Page 100 - Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine ; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse; but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Page 47 - The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah ; all they from Sheba shall come : they shall bring gold and incense ; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.
Page 300 - And he said unto another, Follow -me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead : but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Page 21 - SAINT JOHN BAPTIST'S DAY. Almighty GOD, by Whose providence Thy servant John Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of Thy SON our SAVIOUR, by preaching of repentance; make us so to follow his doctrine and holy life, that we may truly repent according to his preaching ; and after his example constantly speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently suffer for the truth's sake ; through JESUS CHRIST our LORD.
Page 7 - That we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies: might ferve Him without fear ; " In holinefs and righteoufnefs before Him : all the days of our life.
Page 88 - Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the ;world, and the glory of them, in a moment of time.
Page 141 - Now, when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases, brought them unto him : and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

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