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... amount to the Lord is a matter that we have more than human direction for . " Whilst an able living expositor of Scripture says , " that he thinks it may be demonstrated from the Scriptures , that no one believing them can consistently ...
... amount to the Lord is a matter that we have more than human direction for . " Whilst an able living expositor of Scripture says , " that he thinks it may be demonstrated from the Scriptures , that no one believing them can consistently ...
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... amount but two mites , it was in fact her all . * Exod . xiii . 2 . + Lev . xxv . 23 . § Ezek . xviii . 4 . || Hag . ii . 8 . Ps . 1. 10 . ¶ Matt . iv . 18 . ** Ibid . iv . 20 . ++ Mark , xii . 42 . But Matthew was not a poor man ...
... amount but two mites , it was in fact her all . * Exod . xiii . 2 . + Lev . xxv . 23 . § Ezek . xviii . 4 . || Hag . ii . 8 . Ps . 1. 10 . ¶ Matt . iv . 18 . ** Ibid . iv . 20 . ++ Mark , xii . 42 . But Matthew was not a poor man ...
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... amount to each according as he is disposed to act according as circumstances seem to call for an extended liberality , or his own generous and grateful impulses , quickened by a sense of God's exceeding goodness , lead him to bestow it ...
... amount to each according as he is disposed to act according as circumstances seem to call for an extended liberality , or his own generous and grateful impulses , quickened by a sense of God's exceeding goodness , lead him to bestow it ...
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... amount to an evidence convincing and entire . I will now direct our attention to the declarations of Scripture on this head , where we will find every notice of it , and every inference deducible from its notices , in full and perfect ...
... amount to an evidence convincing and entire . I will now direct our attention to the declarations of Scripture on this head , where we will find every notice of it , and every inference deducible from its notices , in full and perfect ...
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... amount of costly and valuable things required , all was supplied , and more than supplied , by the zealous liberality of the offerers . When the Tabernacle was being made and furnished we are told that the people required , not to be ...
... amount of costly and valuable things required , all was supplied , and more than supplied , by the zealous liberality of the offerers . When the Tabernacle was being made and furnished we are told that the people required , not to be ...
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Page 189 - Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Page 24 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 97 - And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Page 247 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 143 - And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
Page 59 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 93 - Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation ; on thee do I wait all the day.
Page 353 - Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Page 111 - But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man.
Page 108 - Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the Oracles of God.