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What so much resembles death as sleep ? the powers of the mind , in sleep ,
loudly proclaim own divinity ; free and unfettered , the soul zes into futurity ,
ascends its native sky . Hence nay conclude how enlarged those powers will be ,
I ...
What so much resembles death as sleep ? the powers of the mind , in sleep ,
loudly proclaim own divinity ; free and unfettered , the soul zes into futurity ,
ascends its native sky . Hence nay conclude how enlarged those powers will be ,
I ...
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... mind , which mad a voluntary facrifice of the most enviable situation așid the
most flattering prospects , which human li adini child leem another cues that once
. Time on , alinto a pointe dead arife . New heaven pet fouthings are man ...
... mind , which mad a voluntary facrifice of the most enviable situation așid the
most flattering prospects , which human li adini child leem another cues that once
. Time on , alinto a pointe dead arife . New heaven pet fouthings are man ...
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Minds · Minds so well assorted as those of Moses and Je ro , and attracted to
each other by mutual acts of i neficence , would ... And the pleasing recollection
of protecti given and received , the natural sensibility of a fema mind to personal ...
Minds · Minds so well assorted as those of Moses and Je ro , and attracted to
each other by mutual acts of i neficence , would ... And the pleasing recollection
of protecti given and received , the natural sensibility of a fema mind to personal ...
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... that formerly he acted from the pulse of his own mind ; with indeed an upright
and evolent intention , but with a zeal rather too bold - impetuous ; whereas now ,
he was following the ection of Providence , and was therefore certain of cess .
... that formerly he acted from the pulse of his own mind ; with indeed an upright
and evolent intention , but with a zeal rather too bold - impetuous ; whereas now ,
he was following the ection of Providence , and was therefore certain of cess .
Page 159
All that verse can do is to help the mem- and delight the ear ; and for these
purposes it may very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind . e ideas of
christian theology are too simple for el zence , too facred for fiction , and too
majeltic for ...
All that verse can do is to help the mem- and delight the ear ; and for these
purposes it may very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind . e ideas of
christian theology are too simple for el zence , too facred for fiction , and too
majeltic for ...
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Page 127 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Page 115 - Above it stood the Seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Page 227 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 17 - For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Page 10 - Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Page 97 - Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Page 180 - Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the Bread Which cometh down from Heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the Living Bread Which came down from Heaven : if any man eat of this Bread, he shall live for ever : and the Bread That I will give is My Flesh, Which I will give for the life of the world.
Page 205 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 119 - And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Page 173 - Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for the people's : for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.
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| Title | Sacred Biography- Or: The History of the Patriarchs to which is Added the History of Deborah, Ruth & Hannah Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Seots Church, Volume 2 Sacred Biography- Or: The History of the Patriarchs to which is Added the History of Deborah, Ruth & Hannah Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Seots Church, Henry Hunter |
| Author | Henry Hunter |
| Publisher | J. White, Thomas & Andrews, 1794 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
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