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... soul of the sceptic subsides into a horrid tumult and wild anarchy , of con- tending aspirings and misgivings : gleams overcast by clouds ; -alternations of hope and despair : -nor is it at all matter of astonishment that the latter ...
... soul of the sceptic subsides into a horrid tumult and wild anarchy , of con- tending aspirings and misgivings : gleams overcast by clouds ; -alternations of hope and despair : -nor is it at all matter of astonishment that the latter ...
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... soul . You shudder at the dismal gloom of an apartment , where the gleam of red em- bers , or the feeble glimmering of a taper , imperfectly displays to view the ghastly countenance of the dying man . An hire- ling attendant sits in ...
... soul . You shudder at the dismal gloom of an apartment , where the gleam of red em- bers , or the feeble glimmering of a taper , imperfectly displays to view the ghastly countenance of the dying man . An hire- ling attendant sits in ...
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... the couch of death , promises with full assurance , a peace that may be imaginary ; and pours the balm of FALSEHOOD on the soul that is ready to perish . Heaven forbid that in meditating on the sinner's close of life , we should 22.
... the couch of death , promises with full assurance , a peace that may be imaginary ; and pours the balm of FALSEHOOD on the soul that is ready to perish . Heaven forbid that in meditating on the sinner's close of life , we should 22.
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... soul , when it is struggling in the agonies of dissolution . But whether , in any particular instance of what is called a death - bed repentance , the penitent be truly contrite , or only terrified , and half - converted ; whether , if ...
... soul , when it is struggling in the agonies of dissolution . But whether , in any particular instance of what is called a death - bed repentance , the penitent be truly contrite , or only terrified , and half - converted ; whether , if ...
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... soul , at this moment ap- pear in his sight ! He hath sown the wind , and reaped the whirlwind ? He hath served a treacherous master , and his wages is death . Ah ! he exclaims , had I devoted myself to God , as I have toiled for the ...
... soul , at this moment ap- pear in his sight ! He hath sown the wind , and reaped the whirlwind ? He hath served a treacherous master , and his wages is death . Ah ! he exclaims , had I devoted myself to God , as I have toiled for the ...
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Page 39 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 125 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we.
Page 83 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 48 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 114 - God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Page 157 - Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 123 - Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Page 7 - For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Page 13 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Page 19 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.