Sermons. Letters. PoemsJohn W. Parker, 1839 |
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... heaven that thou shouldst say ; Who shall go up to heaven for us to bring them down ? nor beyond the seas , that thou shouldest go over the sea for them ; but the word is very near thee , even in thy mouth , and in thy heart ; and so ...
... heaven that thou shouldst say ; Who shall go up to heaven for us to bring them down ? nor beyond the seas , that thou shouldest go over the sea for them ; but the word is very near thee , even in thy mouth , and in thy heart ; and so ...
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... heaven and earth to record this day , that I have set before you life and death ; choose life : if this choice like you not , If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord , saith Joshua , then choose ye this day whom ye will serve ...
... heaven and earth to record this day , that I have set before you life and death ; choose life : if this choice like you not , If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord , saith Joshua , then choose ye this day whom ye will serve ...
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... heaven and earth , but we must remember ines what he did ante principium , before any such beginning was . Moses ' in principio , that beginning , the creation we can remem- ber ; but St. John's in principio , that beginning , eternity ...
... heaven and earth , but we must remember ines what he did ante principium , before any such beginning was . Moses ' in principio , that beginning , the creation we can remem- ber ; but St. John's in principio , that beginning , eternity ...
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... heaven is not like other courts , that after a surfeit of pleasure or greatness , a man may retire ; after a surfeit of sin there is no such retiring , as a dissolving of the soul into nothing ; but God is from the beginning the Creator ...
... heaven is not like other courts , that after a surfeit of pleasure or greatness , a man may retire ; after a surfeit of sin there is no such retiring , as a dissolving of the soul into nothing ; but God is from the beginning the Creator ...
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... heaven in this life . That which our Saviour Christ says , In domo Patris , In my Father's house there are many mansions , as it is intended principally of our state of glory , and diversity of degrees of that in heaven ; so is it true ...
... heaven in this life . That which our Saviour Christ says , In domo Patris , In my Father's house there are many mansions , as it is intended principally of our state of glory , and diversity of degrees of that in heaven ; so is it true ...
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Page 536 - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls, to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no...
Page 263 - And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Page 112 - But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed then Eve. And Adam was not deceived ; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression ; notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness with sobriety.
Page 37 - But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 430 - Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Page 529 - When thou hast done, thou has not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 530 - Others to sin and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two but wallowed in a score? When thou hast done, thou hast not done. For I have more. I have a sin of fear that when I've spun My last thread I shall perish on the shore.
Page 537 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 234 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Page 550 - Whilst my Physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their Map, who lie Flat on this bed, that by them may be shown That this is my South-west discovery...