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... worship which was due to God , he is entrapped for the extinction of the brightest luminary of his empire , and the loss even of a king's prerogative to rescue from a death of violence his counsellor and friend . The dainties that load ...
... worship which was due to God , he is entrapped for the extinction of the brightest luminary of his empire , and the loss even of a king's prerogative to rescue from a death of violence his counsellor and friend . The dainties that load ...
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... worship , God withheld rain from a pious , pastoral people in the land of Canaan , and sent them in great distress down to Egypt , to buy corn ; for they and their little ones were famishing 6 RUTH AND NAOMI Rev A D Gillette, A M.
... worship , God withheld rain from a pious , pastoral people in the land of Canaan , and sent them in great distress down to Egypt , to buy corn ; for they and their little ones were famishing 6 RUTH AND NAOMI Rev A D Gillette, A M.
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... worship which the Israelites observed , their cruel king and task - masters were taught the knowledge of the true God , and that he was the only proper object of worship . But they slighted the offers of his grace , adhered to their ...
... worship which the Israelites observed , their cruel king and task - masters were taught the knowledge of the true God , and that he was the only proper object of worship . But they slighted the offers of his grace , adhered to their ...
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... worship makes it sacred ground . Think'st thou the faith taught by thy lips I loved Hath faded with the voice that gave it birth ? That vision of a life to come , which proved His hope in death , is dimmed by thoughts of earth ? No ...
... worship makes it sacred ground . Think'st thou the faith taught by thy lips I loved Hath faded with the voice that gave it birth ? That vision of a life to come , which proved His hope in death , is dimmed by thoughts of earth ? No ...
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... , supposed to be the Mount of Offence , where Solomon erected altars for the worship of pagan deities . " Between these two last named summits I see , far in the distance to the southeast , the high 11 JERUSALEM . 121.
... , supposed to be the Mount of Offence , where Solomon erected altars for the worship of pagan deities . " Between these two last named summits I see , far in the distance to the southeast , the high 11 JERUSALEM . 121.
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Page 39 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 80 - Jesus answered, He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
Page 96 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 133 - And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him. And when he was come near, he asked him, Saying ; What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee ? And he said $ Lord, that I may receive my sight.
Page 38 - To be a brother to the insensible rock, And to the sluggish clod which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon.
Page 79 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 40 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like the...
Page 39 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 96 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them ; and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them ; Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of God.
Page 171 - Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again : but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst ; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.