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... RELIGIONS 54 THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL 71 ADOPTION 78 CRUCIFIXION 84 NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS 93 • TYRE · 141 PETRA , THE LONG - LOST CAPITAL OF EDOM 160 THE CHURCH IN THE CATACOMBS 175 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE 195 THE AGRICULTURE OF ...
... RELIGIONS 54 THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL 71 ADOPTION 78 CRUCIFIXION 84 NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS 93 • TYRE · 141 PETRA , THE LONG - LOST CAPITAL OF EDOM 160 THE CHURCH IN THE CATACOMBS 175 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE 195 THE AGRICULTURE OF ...
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... religion to which he belonged ; not to anything in Scripture in the slight- est degree opposed to astronomical science . This very reserve of the Scriptures on all delicate points is an internal evidence , amongst many others , of their ...
... religion to which he belonged ; not to anything in Scripture in the slight- est degree opposed to astronomical science . This very reserve of the Scriptures on all delicate points is an internal evidence , amongst many others , of their ...
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... religious notions are really Bible truths , or held by the most intelligent of the friends of the Bible ? He does not . With him the mat- ter stands thus : here is a fact in nature ; there are certain notions believed by Christians ...
... religious notions are really Bible truths , or held by the most intelligent of the friends of the Bible ? He does not . With him the mat- ter stands thus : here is a fact in nature ; there are certain notions believed by Christians ...
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... God's word . May we not now conclude , that the sweetest harmony exists between the word and the works of God ? ANCIENT RELIGIONS . IN nothing have mankind shown their wayward- THE SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY , CONSIDERED . 53.
... God's word . May we not now conclude , that the sweetest harmony exists between the word and the works of God ? ANCIENT RELIGIONS . IN nothing have mankind shown their wayward- THE SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY , CONSIDERED . 53.
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ANCIENT RELIGIONS . IN nothing have mankind shown their wayward- ness so much as in religion . Originally possessed of a revelation from the Creator , they quickly for- got it . Sunk in vicious indulgences , they did not even wish to ...
ANCIENT RELIGIONS . IN nothing have mankind shown their wayward- ness so much as in religion . Originally possessed of a revelation from the Creator , they quickly for- got it . Sunk in vicious indulgences , they did not even wish to ...
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Page 31 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 251 - But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 203 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 7 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 28 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 250 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 244 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 268 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 31 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?