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... peace on earth before we enjoy it in heaven , the least we can do in the midst of our unnumbered infirmities is to foster grateful and kindly emotions ; for it is only when the heart is full of thankfulness to God , and unfeigned love ...
... peace on earth before we enjoy it in heaven , the least we can do in the midst of our unnumbered infirmities is to foster grateful and kindly emotions ; for it is only when the heart is full of thankfulness to God , and unfeigned love ...
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... peace , I met with the words , " Thou art inexcusable , O man , whoso- ever thou art that judgest : for wherein thou judgest another , thou condemnest thyself ; for thou that judgest doest the same things , ” Rom . ii . 1 . 30 THE BOOK ...
... peace , I met with the words , " Thou art inexcusable , O man , whoso- ever thou art that judgest : for wherein thou judgest another , thou condemnest thyself ; for thou that judgest doest the same things , ” Rom . ii . 1 . 30 THE BOOK ...
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... peace of more families , and done more mischief in the world , than all the highwaymen that were ever hung . He that sets his neighbour's premises on fire with a torch is taken up and tried for his life ; but he that inflames the hearts ...
... peace of more families , and done more mischief in the world , than all the highwaymen that were ever hung . He that sets his neighbour's premises on fire with a torch is taken up and tried for his life ; but he that inflames the hearts ...
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... peace , and reputation . " Death and life are in the power of the tongue ; " it wounds not only the body , but the spirit . It not only injures the liv- ing , but blasts with its pestilential poison the cha- racter of the dead . " What ...
... peace , and reputation . " Death and life are in the power of the tongue ; " it wounds not only the body , but the spirit . It not only injures the liv- ing , but blasts with its pestilential poison the cha- racter of the dead . " What ...
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... peace only in Christ , confidently looking forward to enjoy final and complete hap- piness in His presence , where there is " fulness of joy " and " pleasures for evermore . " F SING FOR JOY . As the trumpeter does more on.
... peace only in Christ , confidently looking forward to enjoy final and complete hap- piness in His presence , where there is " fulness of joy " and " pleasures for evermore . " F SING FOR JOY . As the trumpeter does more on.
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Page 2 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Page 109 - As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Page 237 - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Page 94 - 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 58 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 224 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 50 - OsING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 271 - Being, who is infinitely more than an adequate object of all those affections : whom we are commanded to love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.
Page 17 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Page 18 - Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion ; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.