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... seemed to break and prove a hindrance to itself ; like a body of water , which , in consequence of its own superabundance and onward force , is prevented from finding a ready issue through the straitened sluice . He was unable to give ...
... seemed to break and prove a hindrance to itself ; like a body of water , which , in consequence of its own superabundance and onward force , is prevented from finding a ready issue through the straitened sluice . He was unable to give ...
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... seemed to be a necessity . When , on the above occasion , he was told that a resolu- tion would be committed to his care , he said , " Me take a resolution ! I know not what to do with it . I shall be blundering over it , like one of ...
... seemed to be a necessity . When , on the above occasion , he was told that a resolu- tion would be committed to his care , he said , " Me take a resolution ! I know not what to do with it . I shall be blundering over it , like one of ...
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... seemed to be dying a natural death in Britain . The family debt was too large a consideration to entirely forego , and there being no likelihood of ever receiving cash , it was proposed that a tract of country , marked on the map with ...
... seemed to be dying a natural death in Britain . The family debt was too large a consideration to entirely forego , and there being no likelihood of ever receiving cash , it was proposed that a tract of country , marked on the map with ...
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... seemed , was about to be engulfed in the vortex of ruin in London . With the example of the prodigal son in memory , he has yet run a prodigal course , and as a slave of sin and drink , has wasted his life substance . He knew the good ...
... seemed , was about to be engulfed in the vortex of ruin in London . With the example of the prodigal son in memory , he has yet run a prodigal course , and as a slave of sin and drink , has wasted his life substance . He knew the good ...
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... seemed shut in from all surrounding objects . In all my subsequent knowledge of him I never saw a repetition of the mood . " A writer whose particular vocation was to besmirch the reputa- tion of popular preachers in general , and the ...
... seemed shut in from all surrounding objects . In all my subsequent knowledge of him I never saw a repetition of the mood . " A writer whose particular vocation was to besmirch the reputa- tion of popular preachers in general , and the ...
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Page 219 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection...
Page 208 - HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 247 - Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Page 459 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give: When thou hast it by thee.
Page 230 - But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
Page 246 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 185 - And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Page 306 - To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 251 - Seeing then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 371 - And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her : and the Highest himself shall establish her.