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... seems to be a wide spread conviction of this important truth among intelligent Chris- tians . But although the attention of able scientific men has been turned to the subject , the adequate illustration of the Scriptures by the ...
... seems to be a wide spread conviction of this important truth among intelligent Chris- tians . But although the attention of able scientific men has been turned to the subject , the adequate illustration of the Scriptures by the ...
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... seems to have been most widely diffused wherever civilization and refine- ment had made the greatest advancement . The laws of Crete were said to have been given to Minos by in- spiration from Jupiter . Apollo , we are told , revealed ...
... seems to have been most widely diffused wherever civilization and refine- ment had made the greatest advancement . The laws of Crete were said to have been given to Minos by in- spiration from Jupiter . Apollo , we are told , revealed ...
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... seem to be governed by new laws which baffle the wisdom of the wise , and turn " the counsels of Ahithophels into foolishness . " Every institution that has sprung from the ambition or the policy of man , seems tending toward a general ...
... seem to be governed by new laws which baffle the wisdom of the wise , and turn " the counsels of Ahithophels into foolishness . " Every institution that has sprung from the ambition or the policy of man , seems tending toward a general ...
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... seems to be " pouring out his vial into the air , " and it is followed by " voices , and thunders , and lightnings . " Opposing hosts are fast becoming marshalled for what may well be called " the battle of the great day , " great in ...
... seems to be " pouring out his vial into the air , " and it is followed by " voices , and thunders , and lightnings . " Opposing hosts are fast becoming marshalled for what may well be called " the battle of the great day , " great in ...
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... seem to have been written in a book that is yet but partially un- sealed . Enough is known , however , to indicate that she is to act no subordinate part in the great events now " casting their shadows before them . " It is ob- vious ...
... seem to have been written in a book that is yet but partially un- sealed . Enough is known , however , to indicate that she is to act no subordinate part in the great events now " casting their shadows before them . " It is ob- vious ...
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Page 56 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 93 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 13 - Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Page 98 - Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 265 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 73 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 265 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 100 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 125 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 131 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.