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... hand quarries the ore , and another smelts it from the dross , and a third moulds it into form , and a fourth adds its ornament and polish ; in spiritual labor the one hand must oftentimes do all . What are these denunciations of wrath ...
... hand quarries the ore , and another smelts it from the dross , and a third moulds it into form , and a fourth adds its ornament and polish ; in spiritual labor the one hand must oftentimes do all . What are these denunciations of wrath ...
Page v
... hand . Alas ! even while we write , how painfully do we feel the difficulty of this work ; how entirely are we constrained to cast ourselves upon the Spirit , lest by any slip or any heavy pressure , or any inattention to the pattern by ...
... hand . Alas ! even while we write , how painfully do we feel the difficulty of this work ; how entirely are we constrained to cast ourselves upon the Spirit , lest by any slip or any heavy pressure , or any inattention to the pattern by ...
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... hand which should have restored has too often beckoned away ; a want of discernment as well as a want of charity has done melancholy mis- chief in the church . Let us be very careful how we stamp a defective believer as one that is not ...
... hand which should have restored has too often beckoned away ; a want of discernment as well as a want of charity has done melancholy mis- chief in the church . Let us be very careful how we stamp a defective believer as one that is not ...
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... be restored . Oh may the Holy Ghost enable us to put ourselves into His hands , when he is about to instruct us in the strength and mystery of this all - important word ; and when we have learned the lesson which he would teach , 14.
... be restored . Oh may the Holy Ghost enable us to put ourselves into His hands , when he is about to instruct us in the strength and mystery of this all - important word ; and when we have learned the lesson which he would teach , 14.
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... hand : had He put forth his wondrous power , He might easily have burst in the door , and startled the slumberer upon her couch ; but force is utterly abhorent to love , and it is not employed by Christ . How then was this application ...
... hand : had He put forth his wondrous power , He might easily have burst in the door , and startled the slumberer upon her couch ; but force is utterly abhorent to love , and it is not employed by Christ . How then was this application ...
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Page 1 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 76 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves ; for they watch for your souls as they that must give account; that they may do it with joy, and not with grief.
Page 49 - My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, And my bowels were moved for him.
Page 91 - He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him : for he said, I am the Son of God.
Page 93 - The watchmen that went about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, That I am sick of love.
Page 48 - I have put off my coat : how shall I put it on ? I have washed my feet ; how shall I defile them ? My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Page 105 - WHAT is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
Page 109 - His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Page 66 - I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Page 74 - For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas, and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.