Thirteen Historical Discourses, on the Completion of Two Hundred Years: From the Beginning of the First Church in New Haven, with an Appendix |
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Page 20 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars." Then, all present having been seriously warned "not to be rash or slight in giving their votes to things they understood not," but " without respect to men, as they should be satisfied and persuaded in their own minds, to give their
Page 128 - the pleasures of sin for a season ; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.' (Heb. xi, 25, 26.)" Secondly, " Exalt God as the highest object of your fear. Fear God as he ought to be
Page 1 - hast brought avine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it; and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs to the sea and her branches to the river.
Page 39 - xxiv, 31. — And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.
Page 243 - Israel now say, if it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us, then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us.
Page 117 - counsel, execute judgment, make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts, bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee ; Moab, be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler.
Page 67 - So they sat down with him upon the ground, seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Page 170 - In this spirit an apostle exclaimed, " I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ.
Page 20 - in such sort as they would be willing they should stand upon record for posterity," they voted, unanimously, that the Scriptures do hold forth a perfect rule for the direction and government of men in all duties, as well in families
Page 114 - saying, Moses, my servant is dead, now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou and all this people." The unanimous choice of the electors fell upon Francis