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Page 23
... practical lesson inculcated by all God's work- ing within . The hardest of the soul's struggles belongs to the hour of its great resolve — when it renounces the world , tramples upon the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life , and ...
... practical lesson inculcated by all God's work- ing within . The hardest of the soul's struggles belongs to the hour of its great resolve — when it renounces the world , tramples upon the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life , and ...
Page 24
... practical . What is implied in this willing - this pregnant resolve , on which so vast results are suspended ? It may be you have been an undutiful son , and are about to reform . You begin , of course , by a volition , and resolve ...
... practical . What is implied in this willing - this pregnant resolve , on which so vast results are suspended ? It may be you have been an undutiful son , and are about to reform . You begin , of course , by a volition , and resolve ...
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... practical purposes , the proba- tion of an impenitent sinner has usually closed before extreme age robs his limbs and his intellect of their vigor . If , under these circumstances , his life were to be prolonged to the age of Methuselah ...
... practical purposes , the proba- tion of an impenitent sinner has usually closed before extreme age robs his limbs and his intellect of their vigor . If , under these circumstances , his life were to be prolonged to the age of Methuselah ...
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... practical purposes , a doomed spirit . More days he may see , but not better . He has a brief respite of merited , certain punishment , but pardon is no longer possible . Were it not as well for the sinner , when once the great question ...
... practical purposes , a doomed spirit . More days he may see , but not better . He has a brief respite of merited , certain punishment , but pardon is no longer possible . Were it not as well for the sinner , when once the great question ...
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... practical benevo- lence . To have ministered to the hungry , the thirsty , the stranger , the naked , the sick , and the prisoner , will be the right- eous man's passport into the abodes of bliss , while the want of such virtue will ...
... practical benevo- lence . To have ministered to the hungry , the thirsty , the stranger , the naked , the sick , and the prisoner , will be the right- eous man's passport into the abodes of bliss , while the want of such virtue will ...
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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.