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... spirit which runs through them , is too much for me to decide : but this I can say , that such has been my aim . I know by experience , that , with respect to this , when I have been the most spiritually minded , I have suc ceeded the ...
... spirit which runs through them , is too much for me to decide : but this I can say , that such has been my aim . I know by experience , that , with respect to this , when I have been the most spiritually minded , I have suc ceeded the ...
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... Spirit as concerned in creation , as well as the Father . Nor can I , on any other supposition , affix a consistent meaning to such language as that which afterwards occurs : Let us make man in our image , af- ter OUR likeness ...
... Spirit as concerned in creation , as well as the Father . Nor can I , on any other supposition , affix a consistent meaning to such language as that which afterwards occurs : Let us make man in our image , af- ter OUR likeness ...
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... Spirit of God MOVED upon the face of the waters . The word signifies as much as brooded ; and so is expressive of " an active , effectual energy , agitating the vast abyss and infusing into it a powerful vital principle . " Hence those ...
... Spirit of God MOVED upon the face of the waters . The word signifies as much as brooded ; and so is expressive of " an active , effectual energy , agitating the vast abyss and infusing into it a powerful vital principle . " Hence those ...
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... ; and how much are we indebted to the Holy Spirit of God for inditing the scriptures , and opening our benighted minds to understand them ! DISCOURSE II . ON THE LAST FIVE DAYS ' CREATION 10 [ DISCOURSE I. FIRST DAY'S CREATION .
... ; and how much are we indebted to the Holy Spirit of God for inditing the scriptures , and opening our benighted minds to understand them ! DISCOURSE II . ON THE LAST FIVE DAYS ' CREATION 10 [ DISCOURSE I. FIRST DAY'S CREATION .
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... spirit of a little child , that should have no will of its own ; and this is still the spirit of true religion . The consequences at- tached to a breach of this positive law teach us also not to trifle with the will of God in his ...
... spirit of a little child , that should have no will of its own ; and this is still the spirit of true religion . The consequences at- tached to a breach of this positive law teach us also not to trifle with the will of God in his ...
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Popular passages
Page 336 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 115 - Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham ; And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first, God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Page 399 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Page 73 - Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.
Page 213 - What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
Page 279 - And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Page 112 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee...
Page 414 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Page 342 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 122 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.