Lectures on Scripture History, Designed Particularly for the Instruction of Young Persons in India, Volume 1A.C. Balfour, 1819 |
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... prayers are answered and I look back and think of you as the forerunner of all this good . " 66 Extracts from another letter , dated Phila delphia , 24th Nov. 1817. Your two letters from Chinsurah , were received in due season , and ...
... prayers are answered and I look back and think of you as the forerunner of all this good . " 66 Extracts from another letter , dated Phila delphia , 24th Nov. 1817. Your two letters from Chinsurah , were received in due season , and ...
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... praying for " their suc- cess . Othat GOD may support our weak endeavours to promote his glory . " — " Indeed I feel myself at times so totally unworthy of being employed in the Lord's work , that I am surprized that he continues to ...
... praying for " their suc- cess . Othat GOD may support our weak endeavours to promote his glory . " — " Indeed I feel myself at times so totally unworthy of being employed in the Lord's work , that I am surprized that he continues to ...
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... attended by the Divine Blessing , and prove a blessing to many , is the prayer of the friend of the departed Author , and the servant of the Public , H. TOWNLEY , 15 do A LECT . I. On Scripture History in General , PREFACE . xiii.
... attended by the Divine Blessing , and prove a blessing to many , is the prayer of the friend of the departed Author , and the servant of the Public , H. TOWNLEY , 15 do A LECT . I. On Scripture History in General , PREFACE . xiii.
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... prayer , and bless God for the Bible . Endeavour to find out the answers to the questions in the Lectures . Pay particular . attention to the remarks with which each Lec- ture is concluded . The questions are in- tended to rouse your ...
... prayer , and bless God for the Bible . Endeavour to find out the answers to the questions in the Lectures . Pay particular . attention to the remarks with which each Lec- ture is concluded . The questions are in- tended to rouse your ...
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... prayer to God , let them relieve the wants of the poor . Adore the wisdom , goodness and power of God , in making you such a creature with a body and a soul . Remember that God made you thus , that you might " know him and serve him ...
... prayer to God , let them relieve the wants of the poor . Adore the wisdom , goodness and power of God , in making you such a creature with a body and a soul . Remember that God made you thus , that you might " know him and serve him ...
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Page 267 - And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters ; the LORD being merciful unto him : and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Page 325 - And let it come to pass that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink, and she shall say, Drink, and I will give 'thy camels drink also ; let the same be she that Thou hast appointed for Thy servant Isaac, and thereby shall I know that Thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
Page 309 - And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page xviii - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 134 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 59 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 139 - 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 32 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 164 - 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 304 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.