Bible stories, from the Creation to the conquest of CanaanJoseph Thomas, 1840 - 204 pages |
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... thought or toil . Happiness was diffused through all nature ; but man , whom God had created in his own image , and on whom He intended to bestow greater bliss than upon any other living being , was the pecu- liar care of his Maker . In ...
... thought or toil . Happiness was diffused through all nature ; but man , whom God had created in his own image , and on whom He intended to bestow greater bliss than upon any other living being , was the pecu- liar care of his Maker . In ...
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... thought to disobey his Maker , had abstained from too near an approach to the forbidden fruit . There might have shot a momentary relenting pang through the heart of the evil one as he paused to look around upon the happy spot into ...
... thought to disobey his Maker , had abstained from too near an approach to the forbidden fruit . There might have shot a momentary relenting pang through the heart of the evil one as he paused to look around upon the happy spot into ...
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... thought , be tempted to destruction . It was on Eve , therefore , that he resolved first to try his seductive influence . Though following close on all their steps , and watching every moment , it was not immediately that an opportunity ...
... thought , be tempted to destruction . It was on Eve , therefore , that he resolved first to try his seductive influence . Though following close on all their steps , and watching every moment , it was not immediately that an opportunity ...
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... she could be brought to reject the good counsel which she had hitherto obeyed , to walk in all things in the ways of God . At last , however , she had become so much infected with the thoughts of her self - THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN .
... she could be brought to reject the good counsel which she had hitherto obeyed , to walk in all things in the ways of God . At last , however , she had become so much infected with the thoughts of her self - THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN .
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... thoughts , full of love and gratitude , to the Author of his bliss . The serpent had already glided away into the thick shade , as soon as his evil work had been accomplished . Eve looked ... thought of concealing herself 12 BIBLE STORIES .
... thoughts , full of love and gratitude , to the Author of his bliss . The serpent had already glided away into the thick shade , as soon as his evil work had been accomplished . Eve looked ... thought of concealing herself 12 BIBLE STORIES .
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Bible Stories, from the Creation to the Conquest of Canaan George Moir Bussey No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 185 - I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 49 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 50 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 40 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female ; and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Page 17 - And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done ? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Page 186 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Page 46 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 64 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I GENESIS 14 will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 17 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field ; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 109 - And behold the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac ; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.