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George Mogridge. CONTENTS . vii Page The Gods of the Heathen The deep Pit 152 155 Rest Tyranny and Oppression Jewish Custom Food Aged Christians • The too hasty Reproof What good can I do ? The natural Creation The Pedant • The Hill Good ...
George Mogridge. CONTENTS . vii Page The Gods of the Heathen The deep Pit 152 155 Rest Tyranny and Oppression Jewish Custom Food Aged Christians • The too hasty Reproof What good can I do ? The natural Creation The Pedant • The Hill Good ...
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... deep mellow tones of age mingled together , have rung in awful and mysterious melody through its echoing re- cesses , with the praise of the Virgin , instead of the praise of the High and Holy One . With what a cloud of errors and ...
... deep mellow tones of age mingled together , have rung in awful and mysterious melody through its echoing re- cesses , with the praise of the Virgin , instead of the praise of the High and Holy One . With what a cloud of errors and ...
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... deep waters : I shall not see the land that flows with milk and honey . " Look up , poor dying Christian ; for yonder is the bright and morning Star : thy night is far spent , and the day is at hand . Is thine arm too feeble to be put ...
... deep waters : I shall not see the land that flows with milk and honey . " Look up , poor dying Christian ; for yonder is the bright and morning Star : thy night is far spent , and the day is at hand . Is thine arm too feeble to be put ...
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... deep in gore ; of bayonets sheathed in human bosoms , and of murderous cannon sweeping down the multitude , as the mower cuts down grass with his scythe . I pressed the leaves together in haste , and opened them at another part : my eye ...
... deep in gore ; of bayonets sheathed in human bosoms , and of murderous cannon sweeping down the multitude , as the mower cuts down grass with his scythe . I pressed the leaves together in haste , and opened them at another part : my eye ...
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... deep in search of pearls . “ The wild wonders of the ocean , explored by the pearl - diver , in his painful struggles to win the treasures of the raging ocean , have been at such seasons present with me . The broken ship and half buried ...
... deep in search of pearls . “ The wild wonders of the ocean , explored by the pearl - diver , in his painful struggles to win the treasures of the raging ocean , have been at such seasons present with me . The broken ship and half buried ...
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Page 2 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Page 109 - As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Page 237 - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Page 94 - 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 58 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 224 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 50 - OsING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 271 - Being, who is infinitely more than an adequate object of all those affections : whom we are commanded to love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.
Page 17 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Page 18 - Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion ; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.