Meditations in Advent, on Creation, and on Providence

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A. Strahan, 1865 - Meditations - 240 pages

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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.
Page 188 - Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days
Page 235 - Ephesians, that they should be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
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Page 232 - spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, shall he not with him freely give us all things?
Page 6 - tis presumed, this pomp will burst From tenfold darkness ; sudden as the spark From smitten steel ; from nitrous grain, the blaze. Man, starting from his couch, shall sleep no more! The day is broke, which never more shall close ! Above, around, beneath, amazement all.
Page 163 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life : and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 204 - lest they come into this place of torment," which was — "they have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; and if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither would they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
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Page 45 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...

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