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... disciples lamented your blindness , not to see that Shiloh is come . Turn , O turn , sons of Jacob , turn to the Consolation ! he alone is able to free you from bondage , and to place you amongst the princes of his people . As the ...
... disciples lamented your blindness , not to see that Shiloh is come . Turn , O turn , sons of Jacob , turn to the Consolation ! he alone is able to free you from bondage , and to place you amongst the princes of his people . As the ...
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... disciples , and who was received up into heaven , shall , in like manner , descend sur- rounded with thousands of angels ; but who may abide the day of his coming ? Who shall be able to stand the sudden apparition of his glory ? for he ...
... disciples , and who was received up into heaven , shall , in like manner , descend sur- rounded with thousands of angels ; but who may abide the day of his coming ? Who shall be able to stand the sudden apparition of his glory ? for he ...
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... disciples devoted their lives to the benefit of mankind . When results so benevolent in effect , and so universal in power , sprung from the preaching of the simple doctrine of the Cross , is it not a witness that A 2 ONLY IN THE ...
... disciples devoted their lives to the benefit of mankind . When results so benevolent in effect , and so universal in power , sprung from the preaching of the simple doctrine of the Cross , is it not a witness that A 2 ONLY IN THE ...
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... disciples ; all are considered as brethren , without respect to their stations in this world . Stations in life that dazzle the worldly eye are , in his sight , as things of nought , and those that are contemned by the world 24 TRUE ...
... disciples ; all are considered as brethren , without respect to their stations in this world . Stations in life that dazzle the worldly eye are , in his sight , as things of nought , and those that are contemned by the world 24 TRUE ...
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... disciples must take up his cross and follow him ; he holds his power higher far than the world's dominions , and it is only they who by faith rest upon him as the head of the church that he will honour . The crouching of the civil power ...
... disciples must take up his cross and follow him ; he holds his power higher far than the world's dominions , and it is only they who by faith rest upon him as the head of the church that he will honour . The crouching of the civil power ...
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Page 243 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 179 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 92 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Page 93 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 88 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Page 42 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 174 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 109 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Page 133 - Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Page 56 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...