The Riches of BunyanAmerican Tract Society, 1850 - 488 pages |
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... receiving the due acknowledgment of his rare genius and witching style . It is not many years since Gilpin , an English clergyman of cultivated taste- himself a ready and popular writer - issued an edi- PREFATORY NOTICE . 11.
... receiving the due acknowledgment of his rare genius and witching style . It is not many years since Gilpin , an English clergyman of cultivated taste- himself a ready and popular writer - issued an edi- PREFATORY NOTICE . 11.
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... receiving for the churches new lessons of surpassing beauty and potency ; and the confessor , pillaged by informers and bullied by judges , 66 and lamented in his own stricken household and des- olate 16 PREFATORY NOTICE .
... receiving for the churches new lessons of surpassing beauty and potency ; and the confessor , pillaged by informers and bullied by judges , 66 and lamented in his own stricken household and des- olate 16 PREFATORY NOTICE .
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... received its temper , its edge , and its lustre . The story of Bunyan is , we say , one of the golden threads binding together into harmony and symmetry , what , seen apart , seem but fragmen- tary and incoherent influences — the track ...
... received its temper , its edge , and its lustre . The story of Bunyan is , we say , one of the golden threads binding together into harmony and symmetry , what , seen apart , seem but fragmen- tary and incoherent influences — the track ...
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... received version of the Bible . Shut out , as Bunyan was , from direct contact with much other literature , he was most thoroughly conversant with the remains of prophets and apostles , embalmed in that venerable work . With those ...
... received version of the Bible . Shut out , as Bunyan was , from direct contact with much other literature , he was most thoroughly conversant with the remains of prophets and apostles , embalmed in that venerable work . With those ...
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... receive the pronunciation of the forgiveness of sins at his mouth , but that the dread of the majesty of God is in their sight mixed therewith ? God must appear like himself , speak to the soul like himself ; nor can the sinner , when ...
... receive the pronunciation of the forgiveness of sins at his mouth , but that the dread of the majesty of God is in their sight mixed therewith ? God must appear like himself , speak to the soul like himself ; nor can the sinner , when ...
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Page 63 - And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 34 - His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light ; He had horns coming out of his hand : And there was the hiding of his power.
Page 110 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 222 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 134 - I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Page 62 - For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Page 201 - The love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; and that He died for all, that they who live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them, and rose again.
Page 120 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Page 289 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 338 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.