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... kind a reception . The hindrance to an earlier trans- lation of the work , as I anticipated from the first , and have now learned as a fact , has been its peculiarly German char- acter . The texts of Scripture are cited and explained as ...
... kind a reception . The hindrance to an earlier trans- lation of the work , as I anticipated from the first , and have now learned as a fact , has been its peculiarly German char- acter . The texts of Scripture are cited and explained as ...
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... kind , I believe I can say of it with truth that it was rather an effusion . It was the fruit of a mind which sought to reap good to the Church from hours of sorrow as well as of joy , for it originated in a season of heavy trial , when ...
... kind , I believe I can say of it with truth that it was rather an effusion . It was the fruit of a mind which sought to reap good to the Church from hours of sorrow as well as of joy , for it originated in a season of heavy trial , when ...
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... kind , a gardener here Labours from weeds the beds to clear ; 26-30 While late and early dew in showers From heaven revives the drooping flowers : Though clouds at times the sky invest , 31-40 In the cool shade some plants thrive best ...
... kind , a gardener here Labours from weeds the beds to clear ; 26-30 While late and early dew in showers From heaven revives the drooping flowers : Though clouds at times the sky invest , 31-40 In the cool shade some plants thrive best ...
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... Kind death approaching , mows the veteran down : Then meet the mourners round his silent grave , And God adore for the dear friend He gave : 71 , 72 73 3333 74 75 76 TABLE OF CONTENTS . 1. We are the offspring of Metrical Programme . XV.
... Kind death approaching , mows the veteran down : Then meet the mourners round his silent grave , And God adore for the dear friend He gave : 71 , 72 73 3333 74 75 76 TABLE OF CONTENTS . 1. We are the offspring of Metrical Programme . XV.
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... kind of consolation with which they try to sweeten the bit- terness of life and death - those paltry schoolboy rhymes , by which they fain would sing to rest their hearts that 8 2. Our Days are few and full of Trouble . Though I be ...
... kind of consolation with which they try to sweeten the bit- terness of life and death - those paltry schoolboy rhymes , by which they fain would sing to rest their hearts that 8 2. Our Days are few and full of Trouble . Though I be ...
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Page 461 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 311 - What ! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own ? For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Page 382 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 492 - Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none : cut it down ; why cumbereth it the ground...
Page 157 - And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Page 110 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, Even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from theet But the night shineth as the day. The darkness and the...
Page 96 - Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah : Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.
Page 390 - Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? and if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing ? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Page 488 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 506 - Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.