Letters from baron Haller to his daughter on the truths of the Christian religion. Transl

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Page 96 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finifh the tranfgreffion, and to make an end of fins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlafting righteoufnefs, and to feal up the vifion and prophecy, and to anoint the moft holy.
Page 91 - For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : He hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.
Page 202 - Whom God hath fet forth to be a Propitiation, through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteoufnefs for the Remiffion of Sins that are paft, through the Forbearance of God...
Page 91 - He is defpifed and rejected of men ; a Man of forrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him ; He was defpifed, and we efteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our forrows : yet we did efteem Him ftricken, fmitten of GOD, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our tranfgreffions, He was bruifed for our iniquities : the chaftifement of our peace was upon Him ; and with His ftripes we are healed.
Page 92 - He was bruifed for our iniquities : the chaftifement of our peace was upon Him ; and with His ftripes we are healed. All we like fheep have gone aftray ; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Page 88 - The prediction of Ifaiah is ftill clearer : ch. ix. 6, 7. " unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is " given, and the government fhall be upon his fhoulders ; and his " name fhall be called * Wonderful, Counfellor, the Mighty God, ." the Everlafting Father, the Prince of Peace : of the increafe of " his government and peace there fhall be no end, upon the throne
Page 93 - I divide him a portion with the great, and he fhall divide the fpoil with the ftrong ; beca,ufe he hath poured out his foul unto death : and he was numbered with the tranfgreffors ; and he bare the fin of many, and made interceffion for the tranfgreffors.
Page 201 - Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing ; for He was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by his blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation...
Page 203 - Chrift.hath redeemed us from the curfe of • the law, being made a curfe for us...
Page 90 - .' up, nor caufe his voice to be heard in ' the ftreet, A bruifed reed fhall he not '<' break, and the fmoking flax fhall he not *

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