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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... heaven he gains . It is no proof of wisdom to be " wise to do evil , " and to " do good to have no knowledge . " There is a clearness and cogency in the claims of the Gospel of the Son of God , that must extort the acknowledgment that ...
... heaven he gains . It is no proof of wisdom to be " wise to do evil , " and to " do good to have no knowledge . " There is a clearness and cogency in the claims of the Gospel of the Son of God , that must extort the acknowledgment that ...
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... by a single rivulet , unretarded by the dew of heaven , and every where progressive and wide - wasting . It is like a contagious disease from which there is no protection , where there is no healer , and 10 THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD .
... by a single rivulet , unretarded by the dew of heaven , and every where progressive and wide - wasting . It is like a contagious disease from which there is no protection , where there is no healer , and 10 THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD .
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... Heaven to look upon . Men were wicked on principle and by common consent . Impiety was the law of the world ; no other law seems to have existed , or at least to have possessed effective sanctions . Force was law , and in a community ...
... Heaven to look upon . Men were wicked on principle and by common consent . Impiety was the law of the world ; no other law seems to have existed , or at least to have possessed effective sanctions . Force was law , and in a community ...
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... heaven , or deluged by some burning volcano , or sunk by an earthquake ? Yet such was the world before the flood . The whole structure of its so- ciety was imbued with wickedness ; there was nothing to retard its progress , or avert its ...
... heaven , or deluged by some burning volcano , or sunk by an earthquake ? Yet such was the world before the flood . The whole structure of its so- ciety was imbued with wickedness ; there was nothing to retard its progress , or avert its ...
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... heavens , no audible voice , and no bellowing of the approaching tem- pest ; yet were there more emphatic , though silent premonitions every where gathering from the broad earth . " Of clean beasts , " heaven- directed , " they came by ...
... heavens , no audible voice , and no bellowing of the approaching tem- pest ; yet were there more emphatic , though silent premonitions every where gathering from the broad earth . " Of clean beasts , " heaven- directed , " they came by ...
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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.