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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... honor and dishonor ; their peace of mind and their mental distress and agony ; their life , their death , and their eternity ; and to sub- mit the inquiry , On which side does the advantage lie ? Good men have their weaknesses and ...
... honor and dishonor ; their peace of mind and their mental distress and agony ; their life , their death , and their eternity ; and to sub- mit the inquiry , On which side does the advantage lie ? Good men have their weaknesses and ...
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... honored , there is no motive to be virtuous , and no barrier against crime . It is like the raging flames amid the dry stubble , unchecked by a single rivulet , unretarded by the dew of heaven , and every where progressive and wide ...
... honored , there is no motive to be virtuous , and no barrier against crime . It is like the raging flames amid the dry stubble , unchecked by a single rivulet , unretarded by the dew of heaven , and every where progressive and wide ...
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... honor , some toward wealth , some toward sensual joy , some toward conflict and power ; but all working to their overthrow . In righteous judgment God " sent upon them strong delusions : " they felt the full burden of the denunciation ...
... honor , some toward wealth , some toward sensual joy , some toward conflict and power ; but all working to their overthrow . In righteous judgment God " sent upon them strong delusions : " they felt the full burden of the denunciation ...
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... honor God as the Rewarder . Unrestrained wickedness produces exemplary suffering ; this is the unfailing law of his government . The ante- diluvian world was any thing but a happy world , any thing but a world desirable to live in ...
... honor God as the Rewarder . Unrestrained wickedness produces exemplary suffering ; this is the unfailing law of his government . The ante- diluvian world was any thing but a happy world , any thing but a world desirable to live in ...
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... honored of God . In speaking of his character , we are left in darkness so far as it regards his 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 ...
... honored of God . In speaking of his character , we are left in darkness so far as it regards his 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 ...
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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.