Lily Douglas: A Simple Story Humbly Intended, as a Premium and Pattern, for Sabbath Schools ...Armstrong, 1821 - 107 pages |
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... hath said , the poor have ye always with you ; the poor shall nev- er cease out of the land . For what inscruta- ble reason we know not - but one thing we know , that pure religion , and undefiled before God and the Father , is this ...
... hath said , the poor have ye always with you ; the poor shall nev- er cease out of the land . For what inscruta- ble reason we know not - but one thing we know , that pure religion , and undefiled before God and the Father , is this ...
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... hath called himself the husband of the widow that putteth her trust in him - who hath said , he will preserve the father- less children alive - who despiseth not the afflic- tion of the afflicted , but heareth the cry of the destitute ...
... hath called himself the husband of the widow that putteth her trust in him - who hath said , he will preserve the father- less children alive - who despiseth not the afflic- tion of the afflicted , but heareth the cry of the destitute ...
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... hath cursed it in the law , and denounced it in the gospel - that in this world it makes us restless and unhappy - that at the last it is the sting of death - while to them that never re- pent , it becomes the worm that dieth not , and ...
... hath cursed it in the law , and denounced it in the gospel - that in this world it makes us restless and unhappy - that at the last it is the sting of death - while to them that never re- pent , it becomes the worm that dieth not , and ...
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... be so holy ! " " Sanctify yourselves , and ye shall be holy , for I am holy - Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect - Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as God is pure 28 LILY DOUGLAS .
... be so holy ! " " Sanctify yourselves , and ye shall be holy , for I am holy - Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect - Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as God is pure 28 LILY DOUGLAS .
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... hath called ' you , who also will do it . " This was enough ; and as prayer she knew , was one of the means of attaining the blessing promised , she knelt down and prayed that the Lord would do as he had said , sanctify her wholly , and ...
... hath called ' you , who also will do it . " This was enough ; and as prayer she knew , was one of the means of attaining the blessing promised , she knelt down and prayed that the Lord would do as he had said , sanctify her wholly , and ...
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Page 49 - But man dieth, and wasteth away : Yea, man giveth up the -ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, And the flood decayeth and drieth up : So man lieth down, and riseth not : Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 24 - Every one of them is gone back : they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 51 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 49 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 52 - All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 53 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 53 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 65 - 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 24 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.