Educational Pamphlets 61: History of Education in America].1827 |
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... light we shall consider his character . God is omnipotent in two respects . As governor of the material universe , and as governor of the moral universe . Let us consider his power in these respects . 1. In the material universe God ...
... light we shall consider his character . God is omnipotent in two respects . As governor of the material universe , and as governor of the moral universe . Let us consider his power in these respects . 1. In the material universe God ...
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... light and darkness , the beauties of colour , stormy winds , the dark rolling ocean , mountains and all hills , fruitful trees and all cedars , yea all that is in the heavens above , or on the earth beneath , speak of him ; they praise ...
... light and darkness , the beauties of colour , stormy winds , the dark rolling ocean , mountains and all hills , fruitful trees and all cedars , yea all that is in the heavens above , or on the earth beneath , speak of him ; they praise ...
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... light , ever the same , but producing according to the nature of the objects exposed to its rays , numberless varieties of colour . God's character includes all perfections which any exigencies of moral government may demand . These are ...
... light , ever the same , but producing according to the nature of the objects exposed to its rays , numberless varieties of colour . God's character includes all perfections which any exigencies of moral government may demand . These are ...
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... light , and harmony , and beauty . Some seem to think of God as a being of almighty power , cold and distant in his feelings , strict in his requirements , ready to notice the least failing , severe in his punishments , implacable when ...
... light , and harmony , and beauty . Some seem to think of God as a being of almighty power , cold and distant in his feelings , strict in his requirements , ready to notice the least failing , severe in his punishments , implacable when ...
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... light , he that dwelleth in God will behold new and clearer light ; and so long as God is love , he that dwelleth in God , will experience new and increasing love . Hence it is that the mind is capable of everlasting life , and of life ...
... light , he that dwelleth in God will behold new and clearer light ; and so long as God is love , he that dwelleth in God , will experience new and increasing love . Hence it is that the mind is capable of everlasting life , and of life ...
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Page 13 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze!
Page 47 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 9 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 48 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 14 - The riches of the Commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain.
Page 48 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 93 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 39 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Page 15 - Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength ; so will we sing, and praise thy power.
Page 40 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.