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... bear a resemblance to our own , in the same yearly round of beneficent and interesting changes . Who shall assign a limit to the discoveries of future ages ? Who can prescribe to science her boundaries , or restrain the active and ...
... bear a resemblance to our own , in the same yearly round of beneficent and interesting changes . Who shall assign a limit to the discoveries of future ages ? Who can prescribe to science her boundaries , or restrain the active and ...
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... has been appropriated to the use of Infidelity , and the very language of the text has been made to bear an application of hostility to the faith . " What is man , that God should be mindful of him , or the son D 3 53.
... has been appropriated to the use of Infidelity , and the very language of the text has been made to bear an application of hostility to the faith . " What is man , that God should be mindful of him , or the son D 3 53.
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... bear , with thankfulness , his own burden ; and sure I am , if this train of sentiment were prose- cuted with firmness , and calmness , and impar- tiality , it would lead to the conclusion , that each profession in life has its own ...
... bear , with thankfulness , his own burden ; and sure I am , if this train of sentiment were prose- cuted with firmness , and calmness , and impar- tiality , it would lead to the conclusion , that each profession in life has its own ...
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... bears upon the Christian argument , into all its lights ; and fearless as we feel for the result of a most thorough sifting of it ; and thinking as we do think it , the foulest scorn that any pigmy philosopher of the day should mince ...
... bears upon the Christian argument , into all its lights ; and fearless as we feel for the result of a most thorough sifting of it ; and thinking as we do think it , the foulest scorn that any pigmy philosopher of the day should mince ...
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... bears so small a proportion to the time of his whole history , that he has been able to combine an interesting display of private worth , with all that brilliancy of exhibition , which has brought him down to posterity in the character ...
... bears so small a proportion to the time of his whole history , that he has been able to combine an interesting display of private worth , with all that brilliancy of exhibition , which has brought him down to posterity in the character ...
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Page 270 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 265 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 264 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 271 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Page 274 - Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 256 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 270 - I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Page 266 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness : but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night...
Page 258 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Page 150 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.