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abide acceptance Adonijah age without piety aged sinner altar amidst arise and go attainment awakened birth is better blessed Chaldea character Christ comfort conscience course creatures darkness day goeth desire despair difficulty Divine grace Divine Providence duty earth earthly eternity everlasting evil exer faith fear feel filled folly forward furnish gain give glory God's gospel grace guilt hardened hearers heart Holy Spirit hope idolatry important Jesus Joab journey land of promise late repentance latter end live look Lord man's manded mercy mind neglect ness never nihilation obedience offered old age opportunity passed peace perish postponed present principle privileges procrastination racter rebellion religion RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY remains result return to God rience righteousness ruin safety salvation Satan Saviour Scriptures shadows sinful solemn soul soul's tabernacle thing thou tion truth untimely birth unto warning whole wisdom wise yield youth
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Page 30 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that, was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 30 - I have been young, and now am old : and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.
Page 42 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years : and Terah died in Haran.
Page 2 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I ant the Lord.
Page 18 - The harvest is past, and the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Page 2 - REBUKE not an elder, but entreat him as a father ; and the younger men as brethren ; 2 The elder women as mothers ; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Page 24 - If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Page 68 - Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.