Sacred, Biography: Or The History of Patriarchs. To which is Added, the History of Jesus Christ. A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Scotch Church, London-WallJ. J. Woodward, 1834 - 596 pages |
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... respect of sublimity , is gained in perspicuity , force , and duration . Take another instance : -The starry hea- vens present a prospect equally agreeable to every eye . The delights of a calm , serene evening , are as much relished by ...
... respect of sublimity , is gained in perspicuity , force , and duration . Take another instance : -The starry hea- vens present a prospect equally agreeable to every eye . The delights of a calm , serene evening , are as much relished by ...
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... respect fulfilling the de- the fields , nor the highest part of the dust of signs of Providence . We know that many the world : when he prepared the heavens I others exhibited striking types of the pro- was there : when he set a compass ...
... respect fulfilling the de- the fields , nor the highest part of the dust of signs of Providence . We know that many the world : when he prepared the heavens I others exhibited striking types of the pro- was there : when he set a compass ...
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... respect of dominion and Sovereignty . When God had created man , ' he blessed him , and said unto him , Have dominion over the fish of the sea , and over the fowl of the air , and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth ...
... respect of dominion and Sovereignty . When God had created man , ' he blessed him , and said unto him , Have dominion over the fish of the sea , and over the fowl of the air , and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth ...
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... respect tion of the brevity of his life , and of the la- unto Abel , and to his offering : " * What is mentable ... respect unto Abel , and to his offering . But unto Cain , and to his offering , he had not respect . " What made the ...
... respect tion of the brevity of his life , and of the la- unto Abel , and to his offering : " * What is mentable ... respect unto Abel , and to his offering . But unto Cain , and to his offering , he had not respect . " What made the ...
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... respect ! They earnestly covet the gifts , which are dispensed but to a few , and are not always sanctified to the possessor ; while they are careless about the graces which God is ever ready to bestow upon all , and which always ...
... respect ! They earnestly covet the gifts , which are dispensed but to a few , and are not always sanctified to the possessor ; while they are careless about the graces which God is ever ready to bestow upon all , and which always ...
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Page 258 - For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward, how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation...
Page 16 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one ; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Page 496 - For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Page 213 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Page 322 - I shall see him, but not now : | I shall behold him, but not nigh : | there shall come a Star out of Jacob, | and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, | and shall smite the corners of Moab, ; and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 38 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 271 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 16 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Page 491 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 258 - Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared...