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... Lord , and bow myself before the high God ? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings , with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams , or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first ...
... Lord , and bow myself before the high God ? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings , with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams , or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first ...
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... Lord has given me with them in their troubles , has made this a frequent and favourite topic of my ministry among them . The advantages of afflictions , when the Lord is pleased to employ them for the good of his people , are many and ...
... Lord has given me with them in their troubles , has made this a frequent and favourite topic of my ministry among them . The advantages of afflictions , when the Lord is pleased to employ them for the good of his people , are many and ...
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... Lord , by pain , sickness , and disappointments , by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds , weakens our attachment to this world , and makes the thought of quitting it more familiar and more desirable . A child of God cannot ...
... Lord , by pain , sickness , and disappointments , by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds , weakens our attachment to this world , and makes the thought of quitting it more familiar and more desirable . A child of God cannot ...
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... Lord is manifested to us by the event , we are to look to him for grace and strength , and be still to know that he is God , that he has a right to dispose of us and ours as he pleases , and that in the ex- ercise of this right he is ...
... Lord is manifested to us by the event , we are to look to him for grace and strength , and be still to know that he is God , that he has a right to dispose of us and ours as he pleases , and that in the ex- ercise of this right he is ...
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... Lord for help , at the time when you were about to stand in need of especial assistance , then there is a sufficient ... Lord grant that we may find mercy of the Lord in that solemn hour . I am , & c . FOUR LETTERS My Dear Madam , ΤΟ MRS ...
... Lord for help , at the time when you were about to stand in need of especial assistance , then there is a sufficient ... Lord grant that we may find mercy of the Lord in that solemn hour . I am , & c . FOUR LETTERS My Dear Madam , ΤΟ MRS ...
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Page 342 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 356 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 493 - Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Page 527 - He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe in that day.
Page 561 - I was in trouble. 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices, with the incense of rams : I will offer bullocks and goats. 14 O come hither, and hearken, all ye that fear God : and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.
Page 375 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Page 545 - Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Page 545 - God : being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness : that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 582 - I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Page 341 - Brother, fear not; greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world.