Sacred Biography Or: The History of the Patriarchs, to which is Added, the History of Deborah, Ruth, and HannahManning & Loring, 1794 |
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... first , it taught him to defpife and to reject empty , unavailing , worldly honours . " By faith Mo- fes , when he was come to years , refufed to be called the fon of Pharaoh's daughter . " * Ordinary fpirits value themselves on rank ...
... first , it taught him to defpife and to reject empty , unavailing , worldly honours . " By faith Mo- fes , when he was come to years , refufed to be called the fon of Pharaoh's daughter . " * Ordinary fpirits value themselves on rank ...
Page 31
... First , he foregoes the pleasures of a court . Unable to relish a folitary , felfifh gratification , while he reflected that his nearest and dearest relations were eating the bread and drinking the water of affliction , he goes out to ...
... First , he foregoes the pleasures of a court . Unable to relish a folitary , felfifh gratification , while he reflected that his nearest and dearest relations were eating the bread and drinking the water of affliction , he goes out to ...
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... first , and which his power con- tinues to fupport . Rather than man shall remain un- changed , unredeemed , the great fyftem of nature fhall undergo alteration ; fire fhall cease to burn , the Nile fhall run blood instead of water ...
... first , and which his power con- tinues to fupport . Rather than man shall remain un- changed , unredeemed , the great fyftem of nature fhall undergo alteration ; fire fhall cease to burn , the Nile fhall run blood instead of water ...
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... first interview between God and Mo- fes infpires terror ; but the fpirit of bondage gradually dies away , and refines into the spirit of adoption and love . Acquaintance begets confidence , " perfect love cafteth out fear ; " and the ...
... first interview between God and Mo- fes infpires terror ; but the fpirit of bondage gradually dies away , and refines into the spirit of adoption and love . Acquaintance begets confidence , " perfect love cafteth out fear ; " and the ...
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... first words pro- nounced by the Creator in the formation of the world , " And God faid , Let there be light , and there was light . " Why did not Longinus dip deeper into the works of this great hiftorian ; why did he not en- rich and ...
... first words pro- nounced by the Creator in the formation of the world , " And God faid , Let there be light , and there was light . " Why did not Longinus dip deeper into the works of this great hiftorian ; why did he not en- rich and ...
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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 x - 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.