The Contrast Between Good and Bad Men: Illustrated by the Biography and Truths of the Bible, Volume 1M. W. Dodd, 1855 |
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... early period of the world's history . Cain's tragical deed in murdering his brother had separated him from his father's fami- ly , and made him an exile in a remote land , where he and his descendants , severed from the more virtuous ...
... early period of the world's history . Cain's tragical deed in murdering his brother had separated him from his father's fami- ly , and made him an exile in a remote land , where he and his descendants , severed from the more virtuous ...
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... early history . We read nothing of his conversion ; nor indeed of the conversion of any of the saints of the patri- archal period . He was the great adornment of the most degenerate age ; yet human example and influences accomplished ...
... early history . We read nothing of his conversion ; nor indeed of the conversion of any of the saints of the patri- archal period . He was the great adornment of the most degenerate age ; yet human example and influences accomplished ...
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... early he became a pious man we are not in- formed , although it is quite obvious that it was long before the antediluvian world had attained its excess of wickedness . It was under the most unfavorable auspices , and probably in early ...
... early he became a pious man we are not in- formed , although it is quite obvious that it was long before the antediluvian world had attained its excess of wickedness . It was under the most unfavorable auspices , and probably in early ...
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... Early separat- ed from idolatrous ancestors , and placed under heavenly teachings and discipline , young Abra- ham was the child , not merely of a special , but a miraculous providence . His history , like that of not a few eminent ...
... Early separat- ed from idolatrous ancestors , and placed under heavenly teachings and discipline , young Abra- ham was the child , not merely of a special , but a miraculous providence . His history , like that of not a few eminent ...
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... early years except what is fabulous . When he is first introduced to us , it is as a burn- ing and shining light , and , like Noah , standing alone in the firmament , while all around him was darkness . The first and great distinction ...
... early years except what is fabulous . When he is first introduced to us , it is as a burn- ing and shining light , and , like Noah , standing alone in the firmament , while all around him was darkness . The first and great distinction ...
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Page 18 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 217 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!
Page 175 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Page 199 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.