The History of Greenland: Containing a Description of the Country and Its Inhabitants and Particularly a Relation of the Mission Carried on ... at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels : Tr. from the High-DutchDodsley, 1767 - Greenland |
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Page 259 - And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner ; that he may live with thee.
Page 259 - ... appointment, as manifefted in the conftitution of the univerfe, fome muft command, while others obey ; fome muft labour, while others direct their labours; fome muft be rich, while others are poor. The Scripture inculcates the fame important truth, and the inference to be deduced from it—" The poor mall never ceafe out " of the land: therefore I command thee, " faying, Thou malt open thine hand wide " unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to " thy needy in thy land V Such is the method directed...
Page 259 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Page 234 - Put your neck under the yoke, and let your soul receive instruction: she is hard at hand to find. Behold with your eyes, how that I have had but little labour, and have gotten unto me much rest.
Page 157 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man fhould caft feed into the ground, 27 And fliould fleep, and rife night and day, and the feed fhould fpring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 377 - Thy five dear wounds torn wide for me, My rock-holes and my refuge be." "Think on thy Son's so bitter death, His five dear wounds and thorny wreath ; For they have full atonement made, For all the world a ransom paid." " We thank him, weeping at his pierced feet, For nought so much as his atonement great.
Page 429 - The eye sees water, nothing more, How it is poured out by men : But faith alone conceives the power Of Jesu's blood to make us clean.
Page 116 - Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us, and while he opened to us the Scriptures...
Page 9 - Jesus, is arisen in my heart. Neither have I any time for it, for I must hasten to my teachers, who will soon have a great festival, to rejoice that the Creator of all things was born into the world as a poor child, to redeem us.
Page 266 - ... and knowing any thing certain. But when the mist disperses, we get sight of one corner of the land after another ; and when the sun breaks forth, we see every thing clearly and distinctly. Thus it is with us : while we...