A Complete History of the Holy Bible: As Contained in the Old and New Testaments ; Including Also the Ocurrences of Four Hundred Years from the Last of the Prophets to the Birth of Christ, and the Life of Our Blessed Saviour and His Apostles, &c with Copious Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Practical and Devotional, Volume 1W.W. Woodward, 1807 |
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... seem almost a presumption to attempt his character . I shall only say , that for some thousands of years , the sun did not behold his equal . He was from his infancy brought up in a court , where he received all the advantages of a ...
... seem almost a presumption to attempt his character . I shall only say , that for some thousands of years , the sun did not behold his equal . He was from his infancy brought up in a court , where he received all the advantages of a ...
Page xv
... seem not so much to respect order and method , as faithfully to record facts ; yet in the undoubted truth both of Christ's speeches and actions , there is a most admirable consent and harmony . For the more clear demonstration of this ...
... seem not so much to respect order and method , as faithfully to record facts ; yet in the undoubted truth both of Christ's speeches and actions , there is a most admirable consent and harmony . For the more clear demonstration of this ...
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... to God , implying no humiliation for sin , nor desire for mercy . Cain seems to have been a kind of infidel — a natural religion- of his countenance plainly indicated ; upon which God expostulates 22 B. C : 4002 . A Complete History.
... to God , implying no humiliation for sin , nor desire for mercy . Cain seems to have been a kind of infidel — a natural religion- of his countenance plainly indicated ; upon which God expostulates 22 B. C : 4002 . A Complete History.
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... seems not so sensible of his sin as of his punishment . " Behold , said he , thou hast driven me out this day from " the face of the earth , and from thy face shall I be hid ; " and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ...
... seems not so sensible of his sin as of his punishment . " Behold , said he , thou hast driven me out this day from " the face of the earth , and from thy face shall I be hid ; " and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ...
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... seems to point him out as the person who first introduced polygamy , for he married two wives , called Adah and Zillah . By the first he had two children : Jabel , who invented the use of tents , and the management of cattle ; and Jubal ...
... seems to point him out as the person who first introduced polygamy , for he married two wives , called Adah and Zillah . By the first he had two children : Jabel , who invented the use of tents , and the management of cattle ; and Jubal ...
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Page 24 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid: and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 307 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 79 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 29 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Page 515 - Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
Page 43 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 212 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Page 166 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 176 - And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
Page 83 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.