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... scene of action , their attention was too much directed to insulated portions of the plan which was in process of developement before them , to ob- tain a comprehensive view of it as one great whole . Their case with respect to the ...
... scene of action , their attention was too much directed to insulated portions of the plan which was in process of developement before them , to ob- tain a comprehensive view of it as one great whole . Their case with respect to the ...
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... scene . It would be then- viewed from some elevated position - that the land- scape would burst on him in all its loveliness , and ap pear in the richness of its combined beauty . It would have been necessary for the men who were contem ...
... scene . It would be then- viewed from some elevated position - that the land- scape would burst on him in all its loveliness , and ap pear in the richness of its combined beauty . It would have been necessary for the men who were contem ...
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... scene which will , ere long , fade from our sight , and give place to the sublime and un- changing realities of another , and although it is also true , that the operations of that Providence which su- perintends human affairs have an ...
... scene which will , ere long , fade from our sight , and give place to the sublime and un- changing realities of another , and although it is also true , that the operations of that Providence which su- perintends human affairs have an ...
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... scene infinitely opposed to that which will be beheld under the reign of Him , who shall be to the nations of the earth " as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land . " As the mind cannot conceive a more iniquitous or more formidable ...
... scene infinitely opposed to that which will be beheld under the reign of Him , who shall be to the nations of the earth " as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land . " As the mind cannot conceive a more iniquitous or more formidable ...
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... civil liberty , no country has more largely participated than our own . Britain has been eminent- ly the scene where the good done to mankind by that 1 revolution has been displayed . In her while from 66 EFFECT OF THE REFORMATION.
... civil liberty , no country has more largely participated than our own . Britain has been eminent- ly the scene where the good done to mankind by that 1 revolution has been displayed . In her while from 66 EFFECT OF THE REFORMATION.
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Page 273 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying ; Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Page 113 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Bab-y-lon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 159 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 273 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 234 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 234 - ... evangelists, and of the holy innocents, who in the sight of the Holy Lamb, are found worthy to sing the new song of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, together with the holy and elect of God, May he...
Page 87 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 235 - in his thighs, in his genitals," [My father shook his head] " and in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and feet, and toe-nails ! " May he be cursed in all the joints and articulations of his members, from the top of his head to the sole of his foot! May there be no soundness in him ! " May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his majesty...
Page 274 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Page 184 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.