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... heavens with all those glorious constellations which render a star - light night so beautiful , God has con- sulted our natural repugnance to darkness ; and as we feel this natural dislike to darkness , so should sin excite in us the ...
... heavens with all those glorious constellations which render a star - light night so beautiful , God has con- sulted our natural repugnance to darkness ; and as we feel this natural dislike to darkness , so should sin excite in us the ...
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... heavens . Most welcome to him will be the hour of rest and payment ; but he does not suffer himself to suspend his work , until the time agreed upon is come . Thus is man set upon the earth , to work the work of God for an appointed ...
... heavens . Most welcome to him will be the hour of rest and payment ; but he does not suffer himself to suspend his work , until the time agreed upon is come . Thus is man set upon the earth , to work the work of God for an appointed ...
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... heavenly Father . We should be pure and truthful ; open and unsuspi- cious ; ignorant of malice and evil . Knowing how soon the conscience becomes less tender , and how the pos- session of earthly wisdom is apt to make men cavillers and ...
... heavenly Father . We should be pure and truthful ; open and unsuspi- cious ; ignorant of malice and evil . Knowing how soon the conscience becomes less tender , and how the pos- session of earthly wisdom is apt to make men cavillers and ...
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... heavenly comfort are promised , the of sorrow is not removed . The character of sor- row is indeed changed by that grace which maketh all things new ; it is now the chastisement of a gra- cious parent , not the infliction of an angry ...
... heavenly comfort are promised , the of sorrow is not removed . The character of sor- row is indeed changed by that grace which maketh all things new ; it is now the chastisement of a gra- cious parent , not the infliction of an angry ...
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... heavenly wisdom . Consider ( it says ) the condition of your being ; and observe the right time and the permitted season for doing your appointed work . How many do not begin the work till summer is well - nigh over , ' and the winter ...
... heavenly wisdom . Consider ( it says ) the condition of your being ; and observe the right time and the permitted season for doing your appointed work . How many do not begin the work till summer is well - nigh over , ' and the winter ...
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Page 56 - And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell : and great was the fall of it.
Page 76 - And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Page 48 - And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan, "The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Page 44 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 79 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 29 - And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
Page 22 - Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches : He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Page 58 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Page 18 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 54 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?