The Life and Character of Thomas Letchworthauthor, 1786 - 108 pages |
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Page 12 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Page 14 - The archers have forely grieved him, " and fhot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode " in ftrength, and the arms of his hands were made " ftrong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Page 14 - Lord, and do good, fa fhalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou fhalt be fed.
Page 30 - God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty, and base things of the world, and things that are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things that are not, to bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 97 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the fhadow of death, I will fear no evil : for Thou art with me ; Thy rod and Thy ftaff comfort me.
Page 66 - The kingdom of Christ, not being a kingdom of this world, is not limited by the restrictions which fetter other societies, political or religious.
Page 103 - Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear: Safe in the Hand of one difpofing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal Hour.
Page 30 - But GoD hath chofen the foolifh things of this world to confound the wife...
Page 13 - God had called him, even a Workman that needed not to be afhamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
Page 56 - In the moral world, the undertending, " taken for the faculties, is to the mind what " the eye is to the body; and the...