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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... faith . It was a colony founded in unbelief of God's truth , in con- tempt of his institutions , in hatred of him and his people , and in disregard of all those religious in- structions which he had revealed . It was an atheistical , or ...
... faith . It was a colony founded in unbelief of God's truth , in con- tempt of his institutions , in hatred of him and his people , and in disregard of all those religious in- structions which he had revealed . It was an atheistical , or ...
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... faith in God's word . Coming events were told to him , not at first told to others - events which , to the eye of sense , were the most improbable in the world , which indeed seemed impossible . It did not seem likely that God would ...
... faith in God's word . Coming events were told to him , not at first told to others - events which , to the eye of sense , were the most improbable in the world , which indeed seemed impossible . It did not seem likely that God would ...
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... faith in God formed the most prominent feature in his character . It solved many a dark dispensation during that pro- longed period of the divine forbearance , and gave his mind the clue to labyrinths which human wisdom could not have ...
... faith in God formed the most prominent feature in his character . It solved many a dark dispensation during that pro- longed period of the divine forbearance , and gave his mind the clue to labyrinths which human wisdom could not have ...
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... faith by his obedience . It was an arduous enterprise ; but God had com- manded it ; he had indeed originated and mi- nutely dictated the plan of it . Noah was but the under - builder , the humble workman , and felt that he had nothing ...
... faith by his obedience . It was an arduous enterprise ; but God had com- manded it ; he had indeed originated and mi- nutely dictated the plan of it . Noah was but the under - builder , the humble workman , and felt that he had nothing ...
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... faith and zeal amid stupid carelessness , sottish ignorance and degrading profligacy . We can imagine such piety in Christian lands , and amid the sequestered influences of Christian families and churches ; but habitual piety , where ...
... faith and zeal amid stupid carelessness , sottish ignorance and degrading profligacy . We can imagine such piety in Christian lands , and amid the sequestered influences of Christian families and churches ; but habitual piety , where ...
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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.