God, conferences, by père Lacordaire, of the Order of friar-preachers, tr. by a tertiary of the same order [signing himself H.D.L.]. |
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... of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.3 What language ! What splendour ! What promises ! Thus the most vile matter is in labour for its future greatness , as well as 3 Rom . viii . 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 . H 2 I ...
... of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.3 What language ! What splendour ! What promises ! Thus the most vile matter is in labour for its future greatness , as well as 3 Rom . viii . 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 . H 2 I ...
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Page 99 - For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Page 238 - Let us make man to our image and likeness, and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Page 122 - Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; naked, and you covered me; sick and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.
Page 99 - For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Page 250 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 245 - And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Page 133 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 250 - The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself.
Page 135 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.
Page 136 - Thou sayest that I am a king. For this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth : every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.