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... sure that proves no vulgar birth ! And yet I live in bondage to the meanest things of earth . Read me this riddle : Yes , my child , thou art of God the son- That son who turned a prodigal , and fled and was undone . Yes , here too , as ...
... sure that proves no vulgar birth ! And yet I live in bondage to the meanest things of earth . Read me this riddle : Yes , my child , thou art of God the son- That son who turned a prodigal , and fled and was undone . Yes , here too , as ...
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... sure it makes a difference vast , Which word stands first and which comes last . ECCLUS . xl . 1-4 . " Great travail is created for every man , and an heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam , from the day that they go out of their mother's ...
... sure it makes a difference vast , Which word stands first and which comes last . ECCLUS . xl . 1-4 . " Great travail is created for every man , and an heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam , from the day that they go out of their mother's ...
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... sure than that to dust Returns whatever lives . By every step in life's brief race , From life itself we part ; Joy dies within the heart apace , And with it dies the heart . I COR . XV . 32. " If after the manner of men1 I have fought ...
... sure than that to dust Returns whatever lives . By every step in life's brief race , From life itself we part ; Joy dies within the heart apace , And with it dies the heart . I COR . XV . 32. " If after the manner of men1 I have fought ...
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... sure testimony which makes wise the simple.1 Ye great saints who wear the mask so well , and present to yourselves so large a register of your virtues , would that God would give you grace to see what manner of spirit it is which ...
... sure testimony which makes wise the simple.1 Ye great saints who wear the mask so well , and present to yourselves so large a register of your virtues , would that God would give you grace to see what manner of spirit it is which ...
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... sure " 2 ( surely know ) ; or , as it is expressed in the words of the prophet , " I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness ( faith ) , and thou shalt know the Lord " ? 3 D. Methinks that way a hard one . M. - It has often ...
... sure " 2 ( surely know ) ; or , as it is expressed in the words of the prophet , " I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness ( faith ) , and thou shalt know the Lord " ? 3 D. Methinks that way a hard one . M. - It has often ...
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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.