The Brazen Serpent: Being a Simple Illustration of Faith ; Drawn from Scripture History

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American Sunday-School Union, 1836 - 54 pages

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Page 40 - Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee ; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.
Page 20 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 26 - And they came to the place which God had told him of ; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 50 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned : but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Page 29 - Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!
Page 25 - Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burntoffering?
Page 8 - ... and that in him all the families of the earth should be blessed.
Page 40 - Their cure was remarkable. Moses was directed to make a serpent of brass and set it upon a pole. He did so ; " and it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Page 4 - Byron. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. ii. NEW EDITION. NEW YORK: STRINGER AND TOWNSEND. 1652. Entered according to the act of congress, in the year 1S32, by Carey At Lea, in the clerk's office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. THE HEIDENMAUER. CHAPTER I. * Ah, now soft blushes tinge her cheeks. And mantle on her neck of snow.
Page 31 - Isaac to be multiplied as the stars of heaven, and all the nations of the earth to be blessed in his seed...

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