Life at Three-score: A Sermon Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, November 28, 1858 |
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Page 22 - Lord had appointed it or not; he charged us, before God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other Instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any truth by his Ministry. For he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy Word.
Page 5 - God, hast taught me from my youth up until now : therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. 16 Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray-headed : until I have shewed thy strength unto this .generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.
Page 49 - Testament), and most of my other writings, is owing, viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life.
Page 9 - It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life...
Page 27 - burden and heat of the day," and who have toiled for objects which they have regarded as valuable.
Page 69 - has taught me something in relation to such subjects. In the early part of my Biblical studies, some 30 — 35 years ago, when I first began the critical investigation of the Scriptures, doubts and difficulties started up on every side, like the armed men whom Cadmus is fabled to have raised up. Time, patience, continued study, a better acquaintance with the original Scriptural languages, and the countries where the sacred books were written, have scattered to the winds nearly all these doubts.