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... Holy War Holy and Profane State - Church History - Pisgah's Sight - Abel Redi- vivus - and History of the Worthies of England , are the most conspicuous . When the civil dissensions , which for so many years distracted the nation ...
... Holy War Holy and Profane State - Church History - Pisgah's Sight - Abel Redi- vivus - and History of the Worthies of England , are the most conspicuous . When the civil dissensions , which for so many years distracted the nation ...
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... holy thoughts . Eldad and Medad , though staying still in the camp , no doubt on just cause , yet pro- phesied as well as the other elders . Though they went not out to the Spirit , the Spirit came home to them . Thus never any duti ...
... holy thoughts . Eldad and Medad , though staying still in the camp , no doubt on just cause , yet pro- phesied as well as the other elders . Though they went not out to the Spirit , the Spirit came home to them . Thus never any duti ...
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... holy emulation . Let me labour to exceed them in pains , who excell me in parts ; and knowing that my sword in cut- ting down sin hath a duller edge , let me strike with a greater force ; yea , make other men's gifts to be mine , by ...
... holy emulation . Let me labour to exceed them in pains , who excell me in parts ; and knowing that my sword in cut- ting down sin hath a duller edge , let me strike with a greater force ; yea , make other men's gifts to be mine , by ...
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... former . LORD , XX . THE motions of thy Holy Spirit were formerly frequent in my heart ; but , alas ! of late they have been great strangers . It Gen. xliii . 12 . seems - * seerns they did not like their last entertain- 18 PERSONAL.
... former . LORD , XX . THE motions of thy Holy Spirit were formerly frequent in my heart ; but , alas ! of late they have been great strangers . It Gen. xliii . 12 . seems - * seerns they did not like their last entertain- 18 PERSONAL.
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... Holy Spirit be pleased not only to stand before the door and knock , but also to come in . If I do not open the door , it were too unreasonable to request such a miracle , ‡ to come in , when the doors were shut , as thou didst to the ...
... Holy Spirit be pleased not only to stand before the door and knock , but also to come in . If I do not open the door , it were too unreasonable to request such a miracle , ‡ to come in , when the doors were shut , as thou didst to the ...
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Page 148 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Page 106 - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Page 140 - And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they ? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 43 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 62 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 137 - And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? Was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
Page 125 - Have not I commanded thee ? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Page 169 - And the land shall mourn, every family apart: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart...
Page 82 - HA is the interjection of laughter ; Ah is an interjection of sorrow. The difference betwixt them very small, as consisting only in the transposition of what is no substantial letter, but a bare aspiration. How quickly, in the age of a minute, in the very turning of a breath, is our mirth changed into mourning ! XV.
Page 93 - Some therefore cried one thing, and some another : for the assembly was confused, and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.