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... suffer no decline . " - N . Y. Evening Post . " The Family Library is a collection which should be sought after by every one desirous of procuring the most valuable new works in the cheapest and most convenient form . " - N . Y. Daily ...
... suffer no decline . " - N . Y. Evening Post . " The Family Library is a collection which should be sought after by every one desirous of procuring the most valuable new works in the cheapest and most convenient form . " - N . Y. Daily ...
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... suffer pain without the power to afford him any relief ; or we are separated from him with short and distant intervals of reunion . But the pleasures of earth are not only imperfect ; they are fur- ther unsatisfying . To confine ...
... suffer pain without the power to afford him any relief ; or we are separated from him with short and distant intervals of reunion . But the pleasures of earth are not only imperfect ; they are fur- ther unsatisfying . To confine ...
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... suffer excessive grief to subside by degrees into a tender and affectionate remembrance . Let him consider that it is in the power of Providence to raise him up other com- forts in the place of those he has lost . Or , if his mind at ...
... suffer excessive grief to subside by degrees into a tender and affectionate remembrance . Let him consider that it is in the power of Providence to raise him up other com- forts in the place of those he has lost . Or , if his mind at ...
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... suffered wrong , are laid , or about to be laid , in the grave . How inconsiderable then appear those broils in which we had ... suffer at the last , would not be inclined to stretch forth the hand of friendship , to utter the voice of ...
... suffered wrong , are laid , or about to be laid , in the grave . How inconsiderable then appear those broils in which we had ... suffer at the last , would not be inclined to stretch forth the hand of friendship , to utter the voice of ...
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... cast down , O my soul ? and why art thou dis- quieted within me ? Why dost thou suffer these out- ward afflictions to bear down thy constancy , or these 28 REFUGE IN DISTRESS . Hope in God the only Refuge in Distress By Jacob Duche, A M.
... cast down , O my soul ? and why art thou dis- quieted within me ? Why dost thou suffer these out- ward afflictions to bear down thy constancy , or these 28 REFUGE IN DISTRESS . Hope in God the only Refuge in Distress By Jacob Duche, A M.
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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...