The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1M. Sherman, 1829 |
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Page 102
... creation , described in the first verse of the book of Genesis , and said to have been performed at the beginning ; and those more detailed operations , the account of which com . mences at the second verse , and which are described to ...
... creation , described in the first verse of the book of Genesis , and said to have been performed at the beginning ; and those more detailed operations , the account of which com . mences at the second verse , and which are described to ...
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... creation ! How humble a corner in the immeasurable fields of nature and of providence ! If the whole visible creation were to be swept away , we think of the dark and awful solitude which it would leave behind it in the unpeopled ...
... creation ! How humble a corner in the immeasurable fields of nature and of providence ! If the whole visible creation were to be swept away , we think of the dark and awful solitude which it would leave behind it in the unpeopled ...
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... creation . In a science , too , which has for its object the lengthened processes of the divine administration , we should like , if any record of past times could enable us to extend our observations beyond the limits of our own ...
... creation . In a science , too , which has for its object the lengthened processes of the divine administration , we should like , if any record of past times could enable us to extend our observations beyond the limits of our own ...
Page 125
... creation , there are tracts of space which , instead of being occupied like the tracts around us with suns and planetary systems , teem only with animated beings , who , without being supported like us on the firm surface of a world ...
... creation , there are tracts of space which , instead of being occupied like the tracts around us with suns and planetary systems , teem only with animated beings , who , without being supported like us on the firm surface of a world ...
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... creation ; and that it is not for us, who see the evidences of divine wisdom and care spread in such exhaustless profusion around, to say, that the Deity would not lavish all the wealth of his wondrous attributes on the salvation even ...
... creation ; and that it is not for us, who see the evidences of divine wisdom and care spread in such exhaustless profusion around, to say, that the Deity would not lavish all the wealth of his wondrous attributes on the salvation even ...
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Page 125 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 127 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 122 - And men shall speak of the might of Thy terrible acts : And I will declare Thy greatness.
Page 124 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 126 - And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 117 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 126 - Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Page 124 - I say unto you. Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God : But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
Page 129 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 39 - Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high ; who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth...