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... common mind ; but internal , experimental evidence , which is liable neither to doubts nor cavilings . Nothing short of certainty can satisfy or ought to satisfy a soul whose eternity is the question in de- bate . It is madness to be ...
... common mind ; but internal , experimental evidence , which is liable neither to doubts nor cavilings . Nothing short of certainty can satisfy or ought to satisfy a soul whose eternity is the question in de- bate . It is madness to be ...
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... common , especially in a time of general seriousness , than to transpose these terms . Awak- ened persons , without having made the full , irrevocable re- solve to live for God , often enter , with apparent earnestness , upon the work ...
... common , especially in a time of general seriousness , than to transpose these terms . Awak- ened persons , without having made the full , irrevocable re- solve to live for God , often enter , with apparent earnestness , upon the work ...
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... common parents of our human race in the Garden of Eden . He had gained an ample fortune by the manly exercise of his own talents - a species of success which is usually thought to contribute beyond any other meth- od of acquisition to ...
... common parents of our human race in the Garden of Eden . He had gained an ample fortune by the manly exercise of his own talents - a species of success which is usually thought to contribute beyond any other meth- od of acquisition to ...
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... common error to think too highly of the light enjoyed under the dim revela- tion that preceded the Gospel , in comparison with the glori- ous manifestation under which it is our privilege to work out our salvation . We are thus led to ...
... common error to think too highly of the light enjoyed under the dim revela- tion that preceded the Gospel , in comparison with the glori- ous manifestation under which it is our privilege to work out our salvation . We are thus led to ...
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... common lot of mortals , these heaven - sent sages might be allowed the years of our antediluvian progenitors , what infinite benefits would they confer upon the world ! Under their enlightened policy and stable administration , the ...
... common lot of mortals , these heaven - sent sages might be allowed the years of our antediluvian progenitors , what infinite benefits would they confer upon the world ! Under their enlightened policy and stable administration , the ...
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Page 20 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 342 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it, or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 368 - I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 30 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Page 307 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 227 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 174 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 212 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world...
Page 211 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 31 - His second duty is to watch ; ' for he knoweth not the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh.