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... expressed at this or that measure of government - ALL GOVERN- MENT was vilified , because its laws checked evil : The Divine Laws themselves were set at nought- men would fain have been a law unto themselves . Indeed , you might hear ...
... expressed at this or that measure of government - ALL GOVERN- MENT was vilified , because its laws checked evil : The Divine Laws themselves were set at nought- men would fain have been a law unto themselves . Indeed , you might hear ...
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... expressed concern at the loss of so able a Minister ; and to shew the favourable sense he enter- tained of his services , made him an unlimited offer of any rewards in the power of the Crown to bestow ; at the same time he avowed ...
... expressed concern at the loss of so able a Minister ; and to shew the favourable sense he enter- tained of his services , made him an unlimited offer of any rewards in the power of the Crown to bestow ; at the same time he avowed ...
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... expression , in which they should convey these effects of inspiration , were left to their own choice . That this is indeed the case is evident from hence , that every writer in the New Testament has his own . peculiar style . Now ...
... expression , in which they should convey these effects of inspiration , were left to their own choice . That this is indeed the case is evident from hence , that every writer in the New Testament has his own . peculiar style . Now ...
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... expressed . In other cases are employed bold figures and difficult al- legories or figurative discourses , in which something is intended that is not contained in the words literally taken . Their manner of writing is also full of ...
... expressed . In other cases are employed bold figures and difficult al- legories or figurative discourses , in which something is intended that is not contained in the words literally taken . Their manner of writing is also full of ...
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... expression , belonging gene- rally to every different language , and particularly to those in which the Holy Scriptures were written . These I take to be natural and necessary causes of there being " some things hard to be understood ...
... expression , belonging gene- rally to every different language , and particularly to those in which the Holy Scriptures were written . These I take to be natural and necessary causes of there being " some things hard to be understood ...
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Popular passages
Page 72 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Page 334 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.
Page 283 - If ye think good, give me my price ; and if not, forbear." So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Page 72 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 21 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 426 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 110 - Let her see him in his most retired privacies ; let her follow him to the mount, and hear his devotions and supplications to God. Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare ; and hear his heavenly discourse. Let her attend him to the tribunal, and consider the patience with which he endured the scoffs and reproaches of his enemies.
Page 107 - I will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 175 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...
Page 46 - ... he looked upon the independence and uprightness of the judges, as essential to the impartial administration of justice ; as one of the best securities of the rights and liberties of his subjects; and as most conducive to the honour of the crown.