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... Religion , & c . " The names of the writers employed are a sufficient surety that the merit of the Family Library will suffer no decline . " - N . Y. Evening Post . " The Family Library is a collection which should be sought after by ...
... Religion , & c . " The names of the writers employed are a sufficient surety that the merit of the Family Library will suffer no decline . " - N . Y. Evening Post . " The Family Library is a collection which should be sought after by ...
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... religion yields . Then it can exclaim , with a vivacity and a feeling before unknown , as it rests upon the Almighty alone for support , " Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee ...
... religion yields . Then it can exclaim , with a vivacity and a feeling before unknown , as it rests upon the Almighty alone for support , " Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee ...
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... religion offers to his embrace a hap- piness complete , satisfactory , and enduring . Thus did the psalmist find it . In our text we are not presented with a moral axiom , cold and repulsive ; not with a calm reflection upon the ...
... religion offers to his embrace a hap- piness complete , satisfactory , and enduring . Thus did the psalmist find it . In our text we are not presented with a moral axiom , cold and repulsive ; not with a calm reflection upon the ...
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... religious duty , be employed to restrain the bursting emotion . Let the heart seek its relief in the free effusion of just and natural sorrow . It is becoming in every one to show on such occasions that he feels as a man ought to feel ...
... religious duty , be employed to restrain the bursting emotion . Let the heart seek its relief in the free effusion of just and natural sorrow . It is becoming in every one to show on such occasions that he feels as a man ought to feel ...
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... religion discourages our holding correspondence of affection with them by means of faith and hope . Meanwhile , let us respect the virtues and cherish the memory of the deceased . Let their little failings be now forgotten . Let us ...
... religion discourages our holding correspondence of affection with them by means of faith and hope . Meanwhile , let us respect the virtues and cherish the memory of the deceased . Let their little failings be now forgotten . Let us ...
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Page 96 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 116 - Although my house be not so with God; yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow.
Page 137 - Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out : and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God : and I will write upon him my new name.
Page 191 - Beyond the flight of time, Beyond this vale of death, There surely is some blessed clime, Where life is not a breath ; Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward...
Page 86 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 121 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 145 - Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Page 95 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Page 36 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead...
Page 45 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him ; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power...