Sacred Biography: Or, The History of the Patriarchs. To which is Added, the History of Deborah, Ruth, and Hannah. Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Scots Church, London Wall, Volume 4I. Peirce, No. 5, North Front Street; and John Richardson, No. 31, Market., 1818 - Bible |
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Page 55
... attention is instantly called away from the splendour , noise and intrigue of a busy , vain - glorious , debauched court , to contemplate the humble concerns of a private family , and the noiseless performance of a religious service ...
... attention is instantly called away from the splendour , noise and intrigue of a busy , vain - glorious , debauched court , to contemplate the humble concerns of a private family , and the noiseless performance of a religious service ...
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... attention and expectation . This is followed , six months after , by a case still more extraordinary , more out of the course of nature , and of still higher moment , and of equal notoriety . Opportunity was thereby afforded to the ...
... attention and expectation . This is followed , six months after , by a case still more extraordinary , more out of the course of nature , and of still higher moment , and of equal notoriety . Opportunity was thereby afforded to the ...
Page 78
... attention , and tenderness , and the accommodations of sympathy pe- culiarly desirable . See her advancing by slow and distressing stages , towards the residence of her fore- fathers , once illustrious , but now fallen into decay ; to ...
... attention , and tenderness , and the accommodations of sympathy pe- culiarly desirable . See her advancing by slow and distressing stages , towards the residence of her fore- fathers , once illustrious , but now fallen into decay ; to ...
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... attention of Herod , and of all Jerusalem with him , is roused ; that jealous and sanguinary ty- rant , takes every precaution , sets on foot every inquiry that his reigning passions could suggest , to elucidate the case ; to secure ...
... attention of Herod , and of all Jerusalem with him , is roused ; that jealous and sanguinary ty- rant , takes every precaution , sets on foot every inquiry that his reigning passions could suggest , to elucidate the case ; to secure ...
Page 93
... attention , the more hide- ousness and deformity he will discover in it . Be not eager to bring forward the accomplishments of your child . If they are worthy of being seen , your reserve and the child's modesty will give a glow to the ...
... attention , the more hide- ousness and deformity he will discover in it . Be not eager to bring forward the accomplishments of your child . If they are worthy of being seen , your reserve and the child's modesty will give a glow to the ...
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Page 112 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 25 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness ; for they shall be many.
Page 137 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath. And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong ; but he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.
Page 173 - ... how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Page xii - And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen ; and poured out the changers...
Page v - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Page 75 - And so it was, that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling-clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Page 275 - Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, " Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead : so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Page viii - Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page xiv - So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth : and himself believed, and his whole house.