An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With an Appendix, Giving a Condensed History of the Jews from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Day. Illustrated with Maps and Engravings |
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... once the long - suffer- ing of God , waited in the days of Noah . " For the preservation of this holy man and his family , God di- rected Noah to prepare an ark . It was a strange commission . It was making provision against a calamity ...
... once the long - suffer- ing of God , waited in the days of Noah . " For the preservation of this holy man and his family , God di- rected Noah to prepare an ark . It was a strange commission . It was making provision against a calamity ...
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... once the long - suffer- ing of God , waited in the days of Noah . " For the preservation of this holy man and his family , God di- rected Noah to prepare an ark . It was a strange commission . It was making provision against a calamity ...
... once the long - suffer- ing of God , waited in the days of Noah . " For the preservation of this holy man and his family , God di- rected Noah to prepare an ark . It was a strange commission . It was making provision against a calamity ...
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... once departed from the living God , the nations multi- plied to themselves deities with amazing rapidity . As the most striking objects in nature and the mediate source of all good to men , the heavenly bodies soon attracted veneration ...
... once departed from the living God , the nations multi- plied to themselves deities with amazing rapidity . As the most striking objects in nature and the mediate source of all good to men , the heavenly bodies soon attracted veneration ...
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... once into the holy place - into hea- ven itself , now to appear in the presence of God for us . During the abode of the Church in the wilderness , Moses wrote the Pentateuch , comprising Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers and ...
... once into the holy place - into hea- ven itself , now to appear in the presence of God for us . During the abode of the Church in the wilderness , Moses wrote the Pentateuch , comprising Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers and ...
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... once happy and flourishing people was carried captive to Baby- lon and scattered throughout the east . Their sufferings were without a parallel . Every curse and wo which had been de- nounced upon them by God through his prophets , if ...
... once happy and flourishing people was carried captive to Baby- lon and scattered throughout the east . Their sufferings were without a parallel . Every curse and wo which had been de- nounced upon them by God through his prophets , if ...
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Page 197 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 158 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 30 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 167 - Let no man deceive you by any means ; for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition ; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped ; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Page 45 - Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Page 56 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going' forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Page 27 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor : and they served other gods.
Page 116 - And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest; it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 58 - Who is there among you of all his people ? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Page 33 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.