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... felt to contain a strong rebuke , Peter passed , with his accustomed energy of cha- racter , from the excess of obstinacy to the excess of zeal . He saith unto him , Wash , " Lord , not my feet only , but my hands and my head . Jesus ...
... felt to contain a strong rebuke , Peter passed , with his accustomed energy of cha- racter , from the excess of obstinacy to the excess of zeal . He saith unto him , Wash , " Lord , not my feet only , but my hands and my head . Jesus ...
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... felt . When we are required to minister to our dependents with our own hands , and even to reverse our relative situations to undertake an office which , instead of being essential to their life , or indis- pensable to their happiness ...
... felt . When we are required to minister to our dependents with our own hands , and even to reverse our relative situations to undertake an office which , instead of being essential to their life , or indis- pensable to their happiness ...
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... felt all around him . The spirit which has reigned within his bosom has spread , by sympathy , to many others ; and it has often aroused conscience , and held back a soul from many of its sins , where it could not win it completely to ...
... felt all around him . The spirit which has reigned within his bosom has spread , by sympathy , to many others ; and it has often aroused conscience , and held back a soul from many of its sins , where it could not win it completely to ...
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... felt on such occasions , whose nature must have instinctively revolted from impurity of every kind , and whose own character was exposed to suspicion , because he did not think it beneath him to call to repentance even the worst of men ...
... felt on such occasions , whose nature must have instinctively revolted from impurity of every kind , and whose own character was exposed to suspicion , because he did not think it beneath him to call to repentance even the worst of men ...
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... felt it was his doing , and , for the future , I must be dependent on others— ' Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil also ? Why should a living man complain ? " - There was not the slight- est ...
... felt it was his doing , and , for the future , I must be dependent on others— ' Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil also ? Why should a living man complain ? " - There was not the slight- est ...
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Page 13 - So after He had washed their feet, and had taken His garments, and was set down again, He said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you ? Ye call Me, Master, and Lord ; and ye say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet ; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 344 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 45 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 132 - hath * no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God " doth * lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 234 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Page 14 - Peter saith unto Him, Lord, dost Thou wash my feet ? Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.
Page 94 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our " sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty,
Page 46 - just live by faith;" and the loss of this life can only be by unbelief: so the " life which we now live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us,
Page 94 - The LORD liveth ; and blessed be my Rock ; And let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Page 189 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.