A Spring-day: Or, Contemplations on Several Occurrences which Naturally Strike the Eye in that Delightful Season |
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Thus finding an help meet for him , uniting in affection , they became one , and
proved that sacred bond which is so indispensably necessary for the upholding
of the human kind . Can we then suppose that Eve , immediately upon her arising
...
Thus finding an help meet for him , uniting in affection , they became one , and
proved that sacred bond which is so indispensably necessary for the upholding
of the human kind . Can we then suppose that Eve , immediately upon her arising
...
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... the infinitely holy , just , and pure , dreadful , almighty Jehovah , without great
danger of eternal destruction , unless in and through the Mediatorship of Christ
Jesus ; and so through his human nature behold his divine ; for , to the sinner
who ...
... the infinitely holy , just , and pure , dreadful , almighty Jehovah , without great
danger of eternal destruction , unless in and through the Mediatorship of Christ
Jesus ; and so through his human nature behold his divine ; for , to the sinner
who ...
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Without the poor , not only the wealth , but the dignity of the great , would soon
come to nought , neither without these could those subsist : : thus human society
is still uniformly preserved from decay . How wisely then bath the infinitely wise ...
Without the poor , not only the wealth , but the dignity of the great , would soon
come to nought , neither without these could those subsist : : thus human society
is still uniformly preserved from decay . How wisely then bath the infinitely wise ...
Page 269
Faithful ministers of the gospel , though they foul not the stream of human nature ,
point out the corruption , defilement , and darkness , it hath imbibed through the
fall ; so that men may become sensible of their lost and undone state , and ...
Faithful ministers of the gospel , though they foul not the stream of human nature ,
point out the corruption , defilement , and darkness , it hath imbibed through the
fall ; so that men may become sensible of their lost and undone state , and ...
Page 307
pendicular chain were cut off from the highest , there would then be no chain ;
and if , on the other hand , the highest were cut off , the others would fall to the
ground : Just so would it be with human society . How much reason have men
then to ...
pendicular chain were cut off from the highest , there would then be no chain ;
and if , on the other hand , the highest were cut off , the others would fall to the
ground : Just so would it be with human society . How much reason have men
then to ...
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Page 133 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 85 - When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.
Page 287 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, And shut thy doors about thee: Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, Until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : The earth also shall disclose her blood, And shall no more cover her slain.
Page 286 - Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing : let them not feed, nor drink water : but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God : yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Page 226 - Passing through the street near her corner ; And he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night...
Page 256 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 115 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Page 163 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 227 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Page 279 - How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
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| Title | A Spring-day: Or, Contemplations on Several Occurrences which Naturally Strike the Eye in that Delightful Season |
| Author | James Fisher |
| Publisher | author, 1806 |
| Length | 338 pages |
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