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... Peace to reign over us . When I think what must have become of me if I had passed all my life without having ever felt the weight of the divine hand , I shudder . Oh , how much good tribulation has done me ! How it has rooted up the ...
... Peace to reign over us . When I think what must have become of me if I had passed all my life without having ever felt the weight of the divine hand , I shudder . Oh , how much good tribulation has done me ! How it has rooted up the ...
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... peace ; whereas before , so long as I strove after earthly blessings and earthly wisdom alone , I was never free from restlessness and disquiet . But to the violent , who , with sword in hand , would make a conquest of Thee , Thou never ...
... peace ; whereas before , so long as I strove after earthly blessings and earthly wisdom alone , I was never free from restlessness and disquiet . But to the violent , who , with sword in hand , would make a conquest of Thee , Thou never ...
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... peace with God , how can he possibly be happy in this life , seeing that every moment is conducting him farther and farther away from the place which contains all that gives pleasure to his heart ? Every tick of the clock , every ...
... peace with God , how can he possibly be happy in this life , seeing that every moment is conducting him farther and farther away from the place which contains all that gives pleasure to his heart ? Every tick of the clock , every ...
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... Peace , peace , an everlasting peace , Discord shall now for ever cease ! Alas ! how seldom in these poor days of ours do we hear such joyful exclamation bursting from the hearts of exulting Christians ! It is enough to make one weep to ...
... Peace , peace , an everlasting peace , Discord shall now for ever cease ! Alas ! how seldom in these poor days of ours do we hear such joyful exclamation bursting from the hearts of exulting Christians ! It is enough to make one weep to ...
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... peace , seated at table with all the saints in a great and beautiful hall . Not a little surprised , he made haste to enter the door , in order if still possible to uproot the tare that had crept in among the wheat . But mark what ...
... peace , seated at table with all the saints in a great and beautiful hall . Not a little surprised , he made haste to enter the door , in order if still possible to uproot the tare that had crept in among the wheat . But mark what ...
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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.