Sacred Biography, Or, The History of the Patriarchs: To which is Added the History of Deborah, Ruth, and Hannah, and Also the History of Jesus Christ , Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Scotch [i.e. Scots] Church, London Wall, Volume 1Glazier, 1828 |
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... appear , sacrifice was instituted . The same victim shed its blood , the type of atonement : and furnished its skin to clothe the naked , thereby presented the emblem of a perfect righte- ousness , to cover and shelter the naked soul ...
... appear , sacrifice was instituted . The same victim shed its blood , the type of atonement : and furnished its skin to clothe the naked , thereby presented the emblem of a perfect righte- ousness , to cover and shelter the naked soul ...
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... appear from the letter of the narration , and the scene where the action is laid , decoyed his brother into solitude , under the mask of familiarity and friendship ; " he talked with him , " they were in the field . What a horrid ...
... appear from the letter of the narration , and the scene where the action is laid , decoyed his brother into solitude , under the mask of familiarity and friendship ; " he talked with him , " they were in the field . What a horrid ...
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... appear- ances of " the carnal mind , which is enmity against God , " and hatred to man from the first conception of an ill design , to the final execution of a deed of horror ! " Lust , having conceived , bringeth forth sin , and sin ...
... appear- ances of " the carnal mind , which is enmity against God , " and hatred to man from the first conception of an ill design , to the final execution of a deed of horror ! " Lust , having conceived , bringeth forth sin , and sin ...
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... appears , that at the time of Abel's murder the world was sufficiently peopled , on the Mosaic supposition , that all man- kind descended from Adam , to render the public justice an object of well grounded apprehension to guilty Cain ...
... appears , that at the time of Abel's murder the world was sufficiently peopled , on the Mosaic supposition , that all man- kind descended from Adam , to render the public justice an object of well grounded apprehension to guilty Cain ...
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... appears not on the face of the history : it is irreconcileable to reason and experience : as without a miracle , the parts first constructed must have failed and decayed before the latter parts were finish- ed and it expressly ...
... appears not on the face of the history : it is irreconcileable to reason and experience : as without a miracle , the parts first constructed must have failed and decayed before the latter parts were finish- ed and it expressly ...
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Abel Abimelech Abraham Abram Adam affection Almighty angels Beer-sheba behold blessed blood brethren brother Cain Canaan cave of Machpelah character child children of men covenant daughter death delight divine earth Egypt Enoch Esau eternal evil eyes faith father favour fear flesh forever GENESIS Gerar glory grace guilty hand happiness hath heart heaven holy honour human hundred Isaac Ishmael Israel Jacob Jesus Christ Jochebed Joseph king Laban land land of Goshen LECTURE length lived Lord mankind Melchizedec mercy Messiah mind Moses mother nature Noah Padan-aram parents patriarch peace person Pharaoh Pharaoh's daughter piety possession posterity Potiphar prince promise prophets prosperity Providence Rachel Rebekah religion righteousness sacred sacrifice saith salvation scripture seed servant Shechem shew Sodom sons sorrow soul spirit tender thee things thou throne tion truth unto virtue wisdom wise words
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Page 65 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 39 - By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Page 64 - And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen ; and poured out the changers...
Page 66 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 15 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 67 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 84 - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Page 56 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 83 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 111 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.