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... but falling into a barren and ill manured foil , bath , for the pre- fent , produced no better a blade , than what you here fee ; which however , if it please the Lord the Lord to profper , may bring forth as ufeful To the READER .
... but falling into a barren and ill manured foil , bath , for the pre- fent , produced no better a blade , than what you here fee ; which however , if it please the Lord the Lord to profper , may bring forth as ufeful To the READER .
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... better gained in one line of them , than in whole vo- lumes of confused naturalifts : Wherefore he that in the true fear of God shall apply himself to them , may think not only to have eternal life , but by the way also to obtain the ...
... better gained in one line of them , than in whole vo- lumes of confused naturalifts : Wherefore he that in the true fear of God shall apply himself to them , may think not only to have eternal life , but by the way also to obtain the ...
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... better * . There is an excellent illuftration of this in the fpeech of Eliphaz , wherein he fets down the special providences of God towards them that fear him , and are bettered by correction ; Thou fhalt come to thy grave in a full ...
... better * . There is an excellent illuftration of this in the fpeech of Eliphaz , wherein he fets down the special providences of God towards them that fear him , and are bettered by correction ; Thou fhalt come to thy grave in a full ...
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... better know- ledge , which the things themselves received , as in themselves , could not administer . The laft ( whereby the understanding is con- yerfant about things as they are good or evil ) may also be reduced to three . The first ...
... better know- ledge , which the things themselves received , as in themselves , could not administer . The laft ( whereby the understanding is con- yerfant about things as they are good or evil ) may also be reduced to three . The first ...
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... better too , than the common fense doth ; and the common fense may be faid to compound , and divide , as the fancy doth ; Therefore fome , more quick fighted of late , perceiving this ground not fufficient , that they might be fure to ...
... better too , than the common fense doth ; and the common fense may be faid to compound , and divide , as the fancy doth ; Therefore fome , more quick fighted of late , perceiving this ground not fufficient , that they might be fure to ...
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Page 13 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
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Page 229 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Page 229 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days ; for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Page 145 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
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Page 166 - I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.