For the Oracles of God, Four Orations: For Judgement to Come, an Argument in Nine Parts |
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... thousand years every faculty of mute Nature did solemn obeisance to this daughter of the divine mind , whenever he pleased to commission her forth to the help of mortals ; and further meditating upon the delights which she had of old ...
... thousand years every faculty of mute Nature did solemn obeisance to this daughter of the divine mind , whenever he pleased to commission her forth to the help of mortals ; and further meditating upon the delights which she had of old ...
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... thousand ap- pointments - so , upon an audience fixed and about to be hold- en with the King of kings , it well becomes the honoured mortal to break loose from all thraldom of men and things , and be arrayed in liberty of thought and ...
... thousand ap- pointments - so , upon an audience fixed and about to be hold- en with the King of kings , it well becomes the honoured mortal to break loose from all thraldom of men and things , and be arrayed in liberty of thought and ...
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... thousand years of apostolic commission , know not the testimonies of our God ; and the multitude of those who do , reject or despise them ! But , to return from this lamentation , which , may God hear , who doth not disregard the cries ...
... thousand years of apostolic commission , know not the testimonies of our God ; and the multitude of those who do , reject or despise them ! But , to return from this lamentation , which , may God hear , who doth not disregard the cries ...
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... thousand idols either of the world reli- gious or irreligious - which corrupt the reading of the word into a straining of the text to their service ; and when it will not strain , cause it to be skimmed , and perhaps despised , or hated ...
... thousand idols either of the world reli- gious or irreligious - which corrupt the reading of the word into a straining of the text to their service ; and when it will not strain , cause it to be skimmed , and perhaps despised , or hated ...
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... thousands of years , and laboured with no suc- cess - viz . the regeneration of itself , and its restoration to the lost semblance of the divinity . - Oh ! let him be reve- rently inquired after , devoutly waited on , and most thank ...
... thousands of years , and laboured with no suc- cess - viz . the regeneration of itself , and its restoration to the lost semblance of the divinity . - Oh ! let him be reve- rently inquired after , devoutly waited on , and most thank ...
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Page 252 - And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter halt into life than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 16 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 135 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 209 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in : naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 209 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 126 - Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; And my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 192 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling; — 'tis too horrible!
Page 294 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 231 - Many will say to me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works?" And then will I profess unto them, "I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 125 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God is for ever and ever ; a sceptre of .righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.