The new handbook of illustration; or, Treasury of themes, meditations [&c., signed E.S.P.].1874 |
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... leaves become sere and yellow , and stake . fall to the ground before there are The fair Russian then approached any signs of frost in the air . I do the peasant , saying , " Permit me , not like such vegetables ; I do not venerable ...
... leaves become sere and yellow , and stake . fall to the ground before there are The fair Russian then approached any signs of frost in the air . I do the peasant , saying , " Permit me , not like such vegetables ; I do not venerable ...
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... leaves and is gone again , so doth true justifying faith live before assurance comes and after it dis- appears . Assurance is , as it were , troubles , fears , and terrors are not presently out of his mind , until he comes to himself ...
... leaves and is gone again , so doth true justifying faith live before assurance comes and after it dis- appears . Assurance is , as it were , troubles , fears , and terrors are not presently out of his mind , until he comes to himself ...
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... leave us long in God was undoubtedly moved by uncertainty , when he writes that a regard to both these ends . It is God set forth the Saviour as a an imperfect vision that sees but propitiatory sacrifice through faith one motive here ...
... leave us long in God was undoubtedly moved by uncertainty , when he writes that a regard to both these ends . It is God set forth the Saviour as a an imperfect vision that sees but propitiatory sacrifice through faith one motive here ...
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... leave him in quiet , and afterwards to and not less than five thousand or administer to him some religious six ... leaving it amongst his surviving father's interest in the topic declined . He desired to turn to more im- relatives , who ...
... leave him in quiet , and afterwards to and not less than five thousand or administer to him some religious six ... leaving it amongst his surviving father's interest in the topic declined . He desired to turn to more im- relatives , who ...
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... leaving , I saw the wretched man casting at me an imploring look , which exceedingly distressed me , and haunted me as " What I went to my residence . followed I cannot recount ; for I took no trouble to inquire concern- ing the parties ...
... leaving , I saw the wretched man casting at me an imploring look , which exceedingly distressed me , and haunted me as " What I went to my residence . followed I cannot recount ; for I took no trouble to inquire concern- ing the parties ...
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Page 37 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 412 - He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Page 67 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Page 546 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Page 303 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 443 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 24 - God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Page 226 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 144 - For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Page 53 - At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.