The Christian Spectator, Volume 1Howe & Spalding, 1827 |
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... Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine , and when men have well drunk , then that which is worse . Seeing no Christian will readily suppose that the Lord wrought a miracle to give good wine to drunken men , it is evident it ...
... Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine , and when men have well drunk , then that which is worse . Seeing no Christian will readily suppose that the Lord wrought a miracle to give good wine to drunken men , it is evident it ...
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Page 643 - And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues : and they repented not to give him glory.
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Page 101 - And he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
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Page 545 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
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Page 151 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
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