SermonsCrosby and Nichols, 1849 - 367 pages |
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... gracious presence of a good and wise old man , then verging on to the completion of a century of years , who never sought and rarely found , even at that protracted age , an apology for absence from his place at church , in the in ...
... gracious presence of a good and wise old man , then verging on to the completion of a century of years , who never sought and rarely found , even at that protracted age , an apology for absence from his place at church , in the in ...
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... gracious approval of their Lord ; while he who only restored that which was given was sent into outer darkness . He was condemned , not for losing his talent , but for hiding it in the earth ; not for wasting it , but for not using it ...
... gracious approval of their Lord ; while he who only restored that which was given was sent into outer darkness . He was condemned , not for losing his talent , but for hiding it in the earth ; not for wasting it , but for not using it ...
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... be said that no interference is here intended with those gracious courtesies of life , or with those amenities of conversation and bearing , by which the intercourse of society is rendered graceful and pleasing ? INSINCERITY .
... be said that no interference is here intended with those gracious courtesies of life , or with those amenities of conversation and bearing , by which the intercourse of society is rendered graceful and pleasing ? INSINCERITY .
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... gracious care . They are strikingly visible in the material world around us . A few hours since , the sun went down in darkness , the face of creation was veiled in night ; human labors were suspended , and a gloom — eternal , for aught ...
... gracious care . They are strikingly visible in the material world around us . A few hours since , the sun went down in darkness , the face of creation was veiled in night ; human labors were suspended , and a gloom — eternal , for aught ...
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... gracious care . It was His adora- ble love that helped us in our helplessness , and through the silent and gracious ministry of sleep awoke us to renewed life and energy . And if we have hearts within us , and those hearts are not ...
... gracious care . It was His adora- ble love that helped us in our helplessness , and through the silent and gracious ministry of sleep awoke us to renewed life and energy . And if we have hearts within us , and those hearts are not ...
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Page 91 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 73 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Page 18 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
Page 180 - For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Page 186 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Page 286 - Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. Safe in his power, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious prayer. Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best.
Page 156 - Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Page 249 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 129 - 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...
Page 184 - Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?