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Page xxxviii
... shameful arrears , I can be most vile in my own sight , because I have deserved to be so in thine : yet , even then , in ... shame me , with the late sinful declinations of my age ; and fetch blushes , if they can , from a wrinkled face ...
... shameful arrears , I can be most vile in my own sight , because I have deserved to be so in thine : yet , even then , in ... shame me , with the late sinful declinations of my age ; and fetch blushes , if they can , from a wrinkled face ...
Page xxxix
... shame will suffer any man to object it , let me challenge him to instance but in one name . Nay , the contrary is so famously known in the western parts , that every mouth will herein justify me . What free ad- mission and encouragement ...
... shame will suffer any man to object it , let me challenge him to instance but in one name . Nay , the contrary is so famously known in the western parts , that every mouth will herein justify me . What free ad- mission and encouragement ...
Page xl
... shame for a philosopher , a Christian , a divine , a bishop , to have his thoughts grovelling here upon earth : for mine , they scorn the employment ; and look upon all these sublunary distractions , as upon this man's false censure ...
... shame for a philosopher , a Christian , a divine , a bishop , to have his thoughts grovelling here upon earth : for mine , they scorn the employment ; and look upon all these sublunary distractions , as upon this man's false censure ...
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... shame of his fall : paradise at once made and lost : the first man killing his seed , the second his brother . If in these I shall give light to the thoughts of my reader , let him with me give the praise to Him from whom that light ...
... shame of his fall : paradise at once made and lost : the first man killing his seed , the second his brother . If in these I shall give light to the thoughts of my reader , let him with me give the praise to Him from whom that light ...
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... shame ; for the better we were , we are the worse ; as the sons of some prodigal or tainted ancestors , tell of the lands and lordships which were once theirs . Only do thou whet our desires answerably to the readiness of thy mercies ...
... shame ; for the better we were , we are the worse ; as the sons of some prodigal or tainted ancestors , tell of the lands and lordships which were once theirs . Only do thou whet our desires answerably to the readiness of thy mercies ...
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Page xxxviii - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page 491 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page 446 - And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.
Page 446 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 447 - Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
Page 491 - Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Page 389 - And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head ; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
Page 188 - Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
Page 304 - And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men : and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. 20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us...
Page 487 - Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.