The light of other days; or, The lesson of Nineveh1852 |
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... hope of discovering new truth , clearer light , or better defined axioma . They might have , and doubtless had , original archetypes and appliances of knowledge , enabling them to come at truth , in its degree , as readily as we moderns ...
... hope of discovering new truth , clearer light , or better defined axioma . They might have , and doubtless had , original archetypes and appliances of knowledge , enabling them to come at truth , in its degree , as readily as we moderns ...
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... hope , but the human form , like a boat launched with a hole in its bottom , would have foundered on the brink of the year 1. It is according to all analogies , to stick to the paradise of Genesis , which gives a divine and redundant ...
... hope , but the human form , like a boat launched with a hole in its bottom , would have foundered on the brink of the year 1. It is according to all analogies , to stick to the paradise of Genesis , which gives a divine and redundant ...
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... hope , which like a fatal spell leads man where it lists , animates to every purpose , nerves to every conflict , fastens on the spirit even of the forlorn amid the passion of its woe , the dark night of its despair ! There is a soul ...
... hope , which like a fatal spell leads man where it lists , animates to every purpose , nerves to every conflict , fastens on the spirit even of the forlorn amid the passion of its woe , the dark night of its despair ! There is a soul ...
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... hope , to an ungodly world . Were it not for such interposition , the world would sleep on in fatal security , from which multitudes would wake up to everlasting woe . And how com- passionate is God , to be at so much pains to bring the ...
... hope , to an ungodly world . Were it not for such interposition , the world would sleep on in fatal security , from which multitudes would wake up to everlasting woe . And how com- passionate is God , to be at so much pains to bring the ...
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... hope that modern kingdoms will put forth a greater fruitfulness , and enjoy a longer day than fell to the lot of their honoured predecessors . Still , it would be much to hope , and , with our pre- sent historic experience , far too ...
... hope that modern kingdoms will put forth a greater fruitfulness , and enjoy a longer day than fell to the lot of their honoured predecessors . Still , it would be much to hope , and , with our pre- sent historic experience , far too ...
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Seite 95 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves. Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing, or else excusing one another), in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Seite 61 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Seite 72 - The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand...
Seite 110 - Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: 13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves...
Seite 71 - Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Seite 72 - And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
Seite 109 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence.
Seite 60 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Seite 72 - Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire...
Seite 111 - Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.