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... live and be happy in a future state . A Christian can have no perplexing doubt on this impor- tant point ; for " Jesus Christ hath brought life and immortality to light , through the gospel . " All the clouds and shades which once ...
... live and be happy in a future state . A Christian can have no perplexing doubt on this impor- tant point ; for " Jesus Christ hath brought life and immortality to light , through the gospel . " All the clouds and shades which once ...
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... lives of any , especially of my other children , whom I see to be only loans , stars that twinkle and then disappear : and that as I am hastening to eternity , I should not spend my little time in mourning and looking back , but rather ...
... lives of any , especially of my other children , whom I see to be only loans , stars that twinkle and then disappear : and that as I am hastening to eternity , I should not spend my little time in mourning and looking back , but rather ...
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... live in an inverted order . Those who ought " to have succeeded me , are gone before me ; those who should have been to me as posterity , are in the place of ancestors . storm has gone over me , and I lie like one of those oaks which ...
... live in an inverted order . Those who ought " to have succeeded me , are gone before me ; those who should have been to me as posterity , are in the place of ancestors . storm has gone over me , and I lie like one of those oaks which ...
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... live ? But now he is dead , wherefore should I fast ? Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him , but he shall not return to me . " It has been made a question , how we are to understand the last clause of this remarkable passage ...
... live ? But now he is dead , wherefore should I fast ? Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him , but he shall not return to me . " It has been made a question , how we are to understand the last clause of this remarkable passage ...
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... and do my first works . " 3. I would learn by this event , as long as I live , to keep my affec- tions within due bounds towards crea- ture comforts . How hard do I find it to love , and not overlove ! Now , God 112 ADMONITIONS.
... and do my first works . " 3. I would learn by this event , as long as I live , to keep my affec- tions within due bounds towards crea- ture comforts . How hard do I find it to love , and not overlove ! Now , God 112 ADMONITIONS.
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Page 124 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus 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...
Page 31 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them : and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not : for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
Page 29 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Page 21 - Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones ; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. 11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
Page 60 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Page 8 - So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is...
Page 117 - Although my house be not so with God; yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow.
Page 56 - My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of His correction: for whom the Lord loveth He correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Page 74 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 98 - Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, [as] unto a faithful Creator.