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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... 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 statesmen and religious re ...
... 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 statesmen and religious re ...
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... idolatrous land , and where the sottish and infatuated mind of man sought its decisions from the oracles of the heathen , he sought and became imbued with the teachings of unerring wisdom . It is recorded concerning him , Abraham ...
... idolatrous land , and where the sottish and infatuated mind of man sought its decisions from the oracles of the heathen , he sought and became imbued with the teachings of unerring wisdom . It is recorded concerning him , Abraham ...
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... idolatrous and disobedient world . God's object in calling him out from it was to raise up a different and an obedient community , - " a peculiar people above all people . " It could have been for no useful purpose to himself that God ...
... idolatrous and disobedient world . God's object in calling him out from it was to raise up a different and an obedient community , - " a peculiar people above all people . " It could have been for no useful purpose to himself that God ...
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... idolatrous Canaanites , he does not rest until he sees him the affianced husband of the daughter of his brother Nahor , still in Mesopotamia , and the companion of his pilgrimage when they left Chaldea . It is not easy to find , either ...
... idolatrous Canaanites , he does not rest until he sees him the affianced husband of the daughter of his brother Nahor , still in Mesopotamia , and the companion of his pilgrimage when they left Chaldea . It is not easy to find , either ...
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... idolatrous Egypt . The balances were in his hands who lives to protect his people when all the nations die , and who will save them harmless when the earth shall be dissolved , and the heavens rolled together as a scroll . On that sad ...
... idolatrous Egypt . The balances were in his hands who lives to protect his people when all the nations die , and who will save them harmless when the earth shall be dissolved , and the heavens rolled together as a scroll . On that sad ...
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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.