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... blessings may , or may not be expected , that it is impossible for us to proceed with judgment and discretion , ex- cept we keep this point , which ought ever to be our ultimate object , continually in view . Thus our highest interest ...
... blessings may , or may not be expected , that it is impossible for us to proceed with judgment and discretion , ex- cept we keep this point , which ought ever to be our ultimate object , continually in view . Thus our highest interest ...
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... blessings which he was preparing for them . The Greeks and Romans afterwards spread the worship of fictitious deities : the poets invented dif- ferent systems of theology ; philosophers were divided into a thousand different sects ; yet ...
... blessings which he was preparing for them . The Greeks and Romans afterwards spread the worship of fictitious deities : the poets invented dif- ferent systems of theology ; philosophers were divided into a thousand different sects ; yet ...
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... blessing . It is of equal importance to know both the one and the other of these points . It is equally dangerous for man to know God without the knowledge of his own misery , and to know his own misery without the knowledge of a ...
... blessing . It is of equal importance to know both the one and the other of these points . It is equally dangerous for man to know God without the knowledge of his own misery , and to know his own misery without the knowledge of a ...
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... blessings , which they loved . Hence they had an extraordinary zeal for their prophets , and held out to all the world those books which foretold the Messiah ; assuring all nations that he would cer- tainly come , in the very manner ...
... blessings , which they loved . Hence they had an extraordinary zeal for their prophets , and held out to all the world those books which foretold the Messiah ; assuring all nations that he would cer- tainly come , in the very manner ...
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... blessings , but their concupi- scence , which made them explain them of earthly advantages ? Whereas those whose only treasure was in God , would have referred them entirely to God . For there are two principles which divide the wills ...
... blessings , but their concupi- scence , which made them explain them of earthly advantages ? Whereas those whose only treasure was in God , would have referred them entirely to God . For there are two principles which divide the wills ...
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Page 99 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 137 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 164 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 279 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Page 139 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 58 - Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent, and he shall know them ? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them : but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Page 152 - I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Page 99 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 99 - And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
Page 283 - ... it is God who worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.