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Johnson Grant. life , will summon up within the delicate conscience some portion of shame , of dis- trust , of reluctance to advance to judg- ment ; though it were presumption to affirm , that then , even the holiest among men can , or ...
Johnson Grant. life , will summon up within the delicate conscience some portion of shame , of dis- trust , of reluctance to advance to judg- ment ; though it were presumption to affirm , that then , even the holiest among men can , or ...
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... patience to suffer ; -where indigence may at length find a refuge from the buf- fets , and shame from the scoffings of the world . 3. But , thanks be unto Him who hath brought immortality to light , we are not left with 41.
... patience to suffer ; -where indigence may at length find a refuge from the buf- fets , and shame from the scoffings of the world . 3. But , thanks be unto Him who hath brought immortality to light , we are not left with 41.
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... shame ? Shall not the drooping sufferer lift up his head , in the expectation of an hereafter , when his cause shall be made known his obloquy removed ; and his innocence brought forth , clear as the noon - day ? Again : -there are ...
... shame ? Shall not the drooping sufferer lift up his head , in the expectation of an hereafter , when his cause shall be made known his obloquy removed ; and his innocence brought forth , clear as the noon - day ? Again : -there are ...
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... SHAME is the first that demands our no- tice . SHAME can exist , even when there is no detection of the guilt . In this life , indeed , some of our less honourable acts , and perhaps all our unworthy thoughts , we are fortunate enough ...
... SHAME is the first that demands our no- tice . SHAME can exist , even when there is no detection of the guilt . In this life , indeed , some of our less honourable acts , and perhaps all our unworthy thoughts , we are fortunate enough ...
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... shame ? " * But shame will derive its most pointed sting from that conscious sense of universal contempt , which results from full detection and exposure . When men have reason to believe that that tall measure which they take of their ...
... shame ? " * But shame will derive its most pointed sting from that conscious sense of universal contempt , which results from full detection and exposure . When men have reason to believe that that tall measure which they take of their ...
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Page 39 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 125 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we.
Page 83 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 48 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 114 - God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Page 157 - Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 123 - Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Page 7 - For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Page 13 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Page 19 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.