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... glory of Rome . Expectations of the world at this period- Extract from Virgil's Pollio compared with Isaiah's predictions Tranquillity of all nations.The decree of Augustus --- Conjectures respecting this tax , and its extent-- Inns of ...
... glory of Rome . Expectations of the world at this period- Extract from Virgil's Pollio compared with Isaiah's predictions Tranquillity of all nations.The decree of Augustus --- Conjectures respecting this tax , and its extent-- Inns of ...
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... glory , and immortality ? When I remember the occasion on which I stand before this large assembly , and the awful engagement which , at the solicitation of many among you , I have undertaken - I shrink from my subject , and enter up ...
... glory , and immortality ? When I remember the occasion on which I stand before this large assembly , and the awful engagement which , at the solicitation of many among you , I have undertaken - I shrink from my subject , and enter up ...
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... glory ; a system more honorable to God , more adapted to the wants and the felicity of man , and more productive of moral excellence , than that which is suggested in the Scriptures , was produced ? We defy skepticism to answer in the ...
... glory ; a system more honorable to God , more adapted to the wants and the felicity of man , and more productive of moral excellence , than that which is suggested in the Scriptures , was produced ? We defy skepticism to answer in the ...
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... - tion ; although possibly subordinately to the others , as they were inferior in glory . HENCE SPRANG POLY- THEISM . The arts and sciences in the mean time advanced ; and while they were erecting for themselves splendid habitations , 4 25.
... - tion ; although possibly subordinately to the others , as they were inferior in glory . HENCE SPRANG POLY- THEISM . The arts and sciences in the mean time advanced ; and while they were erecting for themselves splendid habitations , 4 25.
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... glory of the uncorruptible God , The gross impurity to which this paragraph alludes , was principally ascribed in the mythology of the heathens to Jupiter , their supreme deity . into an image made like to corruptible man , and 28.
... glory of the uncorruptible God , The gross impurity to which this paragraph alludes , was principally ascribed in the mythology of the heathens to Jupiter , their supreme deity . into an image made like to corruptible man , and 28.
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Page 133 - Then the Lord rained upon Sodom, and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 267 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
Page 75 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 128 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 350 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory: The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in.
Page 39 - Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...
Page 188 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 149 - And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life ; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Page 366 - Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations...
Page 294 - But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.