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Page 277 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Page 321 - The idea seems somewhat of this kind, that being a woman and a mother, she is more accessible to mankind, and more open to pity, than her sterner Son, with whom she has boundless influence. Now this idea they are taught to entertain in every possible way; and what can be more awful, more hideously contrary to Scripture? Close to one of the principal entrances to Rome, is this text upon a church, *' Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of Mary, that we may obtain mercy to pardon, and grace to...
Page 23 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Page 231 - I acknowledged my sin unto Thee and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgression unto the Lord, and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
Page 22 - And so the war in his soul between the flesh and the spirit, the " old man" and the "new," God in all things, or all things without God, became less and less earnest as the "things seen" concealed from his spiritual eye "the things unseen.
Page 7 - Thie love was manifested in everyday life, not merely by the total absence of all envy, detraction, hard speeches, and harsh judgments, but also in a sensitive considerateness for the •wishes of others, and an habitual watchfulness to please without ever being obtrusive. Is there a single friend of his who can hear his name mentioned without also remembering the countenance beaming with affection ; the hearty grasp of the hand at meeting or parting ; and the quickened step, and often warm embrace,...