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... give reality to our expectations of the Lord's coming . Hear what the poet sings of it : — " At midnight , when mankind is wrapt in peace , And worldly fancy feeds on golden dreams : To give more dread to man's most dreadful hour , At ...
... give reality to our expectations of the Lord's coming . Hear what the poet sings of it : — " At midnight , when mankind is wrapt in peace , And worldly fancy feeds on golden dreams : To give more dread to man's most dreadful hour , At ...
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... give any detailed description of the circumstance as applicable to all men is , from the above reason , impossible . Then , again , as to the place where the Lord shall come , how difficult it is to form any idea in our minds which may ...
... give any detailed description of the circumstance as applicable to all men is , from the above reason , impossible . Then , again , as to the place where the Lord shall come , how difficult it is to form any idea in our minds which may ...
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... give us of that day ; vain for any imagined success in throwing off the realities of this state in which we are . For the present , which lies about a man , wraps him like a garment , and gives the form and semblance to all his thoughts ...
... give us of that day ; vain for any imagined success in throwing off the realities of this state in which we are . For the present , which lies about a man , wraps him like a garment , and gives the form and semblance to all his thoughts ...
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... gives the account and lays open the foundation of the former . He who is prepared for the Lord's coming , is necessarily also pre- pared for his own death . The greater includes the less . He who so lives , so thinks , so speaks , so ...
... gives the account and lays open the foundation of the former . He who is prepared for the Lord's coming , is necessarily also pre- pared for his own death . The greater includes the less . He who so lives , so thinks , so speaks , so ...
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... give scope to the roving fancy , as to the great event , its manner or its time . Still these words , " Yet a little while , " should be impressed on every mind . Could we look at the future as we do on the past , could we estimate the ...
... give scope to the roving fancy , as to the great event , its manner or its time . Still these words , " Yet a little while , " should be impressed on every mind . Could we look at the future as we do on the past , could we estimate the ...
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Page 186 - Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
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Page 235 - Ephesians, that they should be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
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