Reflections on the Works of God in Nature and Providence: For Every Day in the Year, Volume 1Richard Edwards, 1810 - Devotional exercises |
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... infinite number of flakes which fall from the air . What a pleasing sight to view the hills , the forests and the thickets , clothed with such dazzling lustre ! What a charm results from the assemblage of all these objects ! Behold ...
... infinite number of flakes which fall from the air . What a pleasing sight to view the hills , the forests and the thickets , clothed with such dazzling lustre ! What a charm results from the assemblage of all these objects ! Behold ...
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... infinite number of other creatures . Nature is always active , even in the time when it appears to rest ; and it ren- ders us real services , even when it appears to refuse them . In this also , let us admire the tender care of Divine ...
... infinite number of other creatures . Nature is always active , even in the time when it appears to rest ; and it ren- ders us real services , even when it appears to refuse them . In this also , let us admire the tender care of Divine ...
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... infinite goodness of our adorable Creator . Reader ! stop here , and reflect . - How great must that God be who has created all these immense globes ! who regulates their revolutions , and whose powerful hand governs and supports them ...
... infinite goodness of our adorable Creator . Reader ! stop here , and reflect . - How great must that God be who has created all these immense globes ! who regulates their revolutions , and whose powerful hand governs and supports them ...
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... infinite number of the stars and planets ? And could the pilot make use of the polar star if the day were continual ? Considered in another point of view , the night ap- pears more beneficial to us , in diminishing our wants which ...
... infinite number of the stars and planets ? And could the pilot make use of the polar star if the day were continual ? Considered in another point of view , the night ap- pears more beneficial to us , in diminishing our wants which ...
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... Infinite and Eternal Spirit ; we feel no sensation of fear on this head . If a dead man should appear to us at midnight , and declare that we should shortly go and join him ; the most intrepid man would be fro- zen with terror ; would ...
... Infinite and Eternal Spirit ; we feel no sensation of fear on this head . If a dead man should appear to us at midnight , and declare that we should shortly go and join him ; the most intrepid man would be fro- zen with terror ; would ...
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Page 57 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 7 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands.
Page 57 - Bless the LORD, O my soul. PSALM 104 BLESS the LORD, 0 my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great ; Thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Page 58 - He layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: he maketh the clouds his chariot : he walketh upon the wings of the wind : He maketh the winds his angels; flames of fire his ministers.
Page 31 - ... so shall My word be that goeth forth out of my mouth ; it shall not return unto me void but shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in • the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 262 - The Family Instructor; in Two Parts. 1. Relating to Family Breaches, and their obstructing Religious Duties. 2. To the great Mistake of mixing the Passions in the managing and correcting of Children. With a great variety of Cases relating to setting ill Examples to Children and Servants.
Page 239 - What has been will be, and what has been done will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.
Page 57 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone ; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Page 262 - Reflections upon the Books of the Holy Scripture to establish the Truth of the Christian Religion,' two vols, (the first published in French, 1687, the second in English, 1688).
Page 98 - ... the faults and transgressions of my youth ! According to thy mercy remember thou me, For thy goodness' sake, O LORD ! 8 Good and righteous is the LORD ; Therefore showeth he to sinners the way.