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... taken in scripture not only for the favour of God , but also for his gracious gifts ; and so you are to understand it in this place . Grace is taken for the gifts of grace , and they are two - fold , common and special . Some are com ...
... taken in scripture not only for the favour of God , but also for his gracious gifts ; and so you are to understand it in this place . Grace is taken for the gifts of grace , and they are two - fold , common and special . Some are com ...
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... taken , is hatred wound up to the height . The word that is rendered abhor , signifies to reject , to disdain , to contemn , and to cast off . says Job , I abhor myself ; I reject myself ; I disdain myself ; I cast off myself ; I have a ...
... taken , is hatred wound up to the height . The word that is rendered abhor , signifies to reject , to disdain , to contemn , and to cast off . says Job , I abhor myself ; I reject myself ; I disdain myself ; I cast off myself ; I have a ...
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... taken upon me to speak unto the Lord , who am but dust and ashes . Here you have the father of the faithful , the greatest believer in the world , accounting himself dust and ashes . Dust denotes the baseness of his original , and ashes ...
... taken upon me to speak unto the Lord , who am but dust and ashes . Here you have the father of the faithful , the greatest believer in the world , accounting himself dust and ashes . Dust denotes the baseness of his original , and ashes ...
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... taken up into the third heavens , and had glorious revelations and manifestations of God ; and yet he cries out , I was a blasphemer , a per- secutor , and injurious . Under the choicest discoveries , he remembers his former blasphemies ...
... taken up into the third heavens , and had glorious revelations and manifestations of God ; and yet he cries out , I was a blasphemer , a per- secutor , and injurious . Under the choicest discoveries , he remembers his former blasphemies ...
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... taken away from him , and that his sons must be slain in the war . It is the Lord , says he , let him do what seemeth him good . So in Lev . x . the Lord by fire from heaven destroys Aaron's two sons . Then Moses said unto Aaron , This ...
... taken away from him , and that his sons must be slain in the war . It is the Lord , says he , let him do what seemeth him good . So in Lev . x . the Lord by fire from heaven destroys Aaron's two sons . Then Moses said unto Aaron , This ...
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Popular passages
Page 364 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Page 182 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Page 340 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Page 388 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 461 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands ; thy walls are continually before Me.
Page 10 - Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Page 455 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing...
Page 333 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 456 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 64 - I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.