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Henry Melvill. therefore ought not to be excluded from our subject - matter of discourse : so that we have to engage you with examin- ing , in the first place , the vision with which Jacob was favoured , when on his way to Padan - aram ...
Henry Melvill. therefore ought not to be excluded from our subject - matter of discourse : so that we have to engage you with examin- ing , in the first place , the vision with which Jacob was favoured , when on his way to Padan - aram ...
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... matter of profit and loss , and to cultivate piety no further than God would give him riches in exchange ? We are persuaded that you cannot thus characterize the vow of the Patriarch . We stated , indeed , at the commencement of our ...
... matter of profit and loss , and to cultivate piety no further than God would give him riches in exchange ? We are persuaded that you cannot thus characterize the vow of the Patriarch . We stated , indeed , at the commencement of our ...
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... matter by death , our spirits shall be capable of intercourse with God , and of grasping much of the magnificence of the future . If they cannot mount the whole height of the ladder , they may yet look on it in its stateliness , and ...
... matter by death , our spirits shall be capable of intercourse with God , and of grasping much of the magnificence of the future . If they cannot mount the whole height of the ladder , they may yet look on it in its stateliness , and ...
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... matter , and make a Deity of nature ? We do not believe that it would furnish any satisfactory account of the thousand beautiful arrangements , discover- able in the visible creation , to say that matter was endued with certain ...
... matter , and make a Deity of nature ? We do not believe that it would furnish any satisfactory account of the thousand beautiful arrangements , discover- able in the visible creation , to say that matter was endued with certain ...
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... matter to which we confidently appeal , and by which we explain certain phenomena , but so many manifestations of infinite power and intelligence , proofs of the presence and activity of a Being who produces , ac- cording to His own ...
... matter to which we confidently appeal , and by which we explain certain phenomena , but so many manifestations of infinite power and intelligence , proofs of the presence and activity of a Being who produces , ac- cording to His own ...
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Page 138 - And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice ; and the water came out abundantly : and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
Page 6 - 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.
Page 95 - I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead...
Page 152 - So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Page 238 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 147 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Page 135 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Page 238 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.