A Homiletic Encyclopaedia of Illustrations in Theology and Morals. ...Funk & Wagnalls, 1885 - 892 pages |
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... Jesus is best of -Newton , 1725-1807 . all . Glacier , and were very hungry when we reached ( 141. ) We had traversed the Great Aletsch the mountain tarn half - way between the Bel Alp and the hotel at the foot of the Æggischorn ; there ...
... Jesus is best of -Newton , 1725-1807 . all . Glacier , and were very hungry when we reached ( 141. ) We had traversed the Great Aletsch the mountain tarn half - way between the Bel Alp and the hotel at the foot of the Æggischorn ; there ...
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... Jesus ; and their mes sage fell on her , pure as dewdrops on the lily . To the shepherds ' eyes , they filled the midnight arch like auroral beams of light ; but not as silently , for they sang more marvellously than when the morn ing ...
... Jesus ; and their mes sage fell on her , pure as dewdrops on the lily . To the shepherds ' eyes , they filled the midnight arch like auroral beams of light ; but not as silently , for they sang more marvellously than when the morn ing ...
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... Jesus Christ , our Surety , had not satisfied to the utmost farthing our great Creditor , God the Father , for all our debts , God the Father might come upon us , the debtors . But our Surety , the Lord Christ , hath given full ...
... Jesus Christ , our Surety , had not satisfied to the utmost farthing our great Creditor , God the Father , for all our debts , God the Father might come upon us , the debtors . But our Surety , the Lord Christ , hath given full ...
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... Jesus Christ is to be gathered up every day fresh , and that if any man undertakes to keep it , it spoils in the keeping . And whether a man thinks he has been a Christian or not , and whether he has been deceived or not , has little to ...
... Jesus Christ is to be gathered up every day fresh , and that if any man undertakes to keep it , it spoils in the keeping . And whether a man thinks he has been a Christian or not , and whether he has been deceived or not , has little to ...
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... Jesus Christ ; I do not believe in such things . " You will be damned , then , sir ! " That's very hard , " say you . No , it is not . It is not more so than the fact that if you reject the compass and the pole - star you will not get ...
... Jesus Christ ; I do not believe in such things . " You will be damned , then , sir ! " That's very hard , " say you . No , it is not . It is not more so than the fact that if you reject the compass and the pole - star you will not get ...
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Page 396 - For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Page 222 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Page 122 - Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Page 117 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 56 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 280 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : When shall I come and appear before God...
Page 95 - For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
Page 13 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 373 - Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. 'With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds. But say I could repent, and could obtain By act of grace my former state ; how soon Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore ! ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Page 389 - Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made ; well : but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace ; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands...