Lectures Delivered at Broadmead Chapel, Bristol, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1861 |
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... ground , that enormous multitude of the victims of the Divine justice , might seem , to thought , to utter a warning against renew- ing the scenes of violence . But , all in vain ! The Flood could not cleanse the nature of man ; nor the ...
... ground , that enormous multitude of the victims of the Divine justice , might seem , to thought , to utter a warning against renew- ing the scenes of violence . But , all in vain ! The Flood could not cleanse the nature of man ; nor the ...
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... ground as God's immediate inflictions in the flood , the land of Egypt , and Sodom and Gomorrah . But , setting this portion of the history aside , -think of the long course of sanguinary conflicts within the boundary of the selected ...
... ground as God's immediate inflictions in the flood , the land of Egypt , and Sodom and Gomorrah . But , setting this portion of the history aside , -think of the long course of sanguinary conflicts within the boundary of the selected ...
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... ground , and in the pure love , of justice , -as in defence of liberty , -in vindication of the weak and injured , -in de- pressing the proud , ambitious , and cruel , -in resisting the oppressions of powerful wickedness ; such examples ...
... ground , and in the pure love , of justice , -as in defence of liberty , -in vindication of the weak and injured , -in de- pressing the proud , ambitious , and cruel , -in resisting the oppressions of powerful wickedness ; such examples ...
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... ground where volcanic fires are in a temporary slumber below . All these may be shattered and exploded by some mighty impulse of ambition , or some blast of revengeful anger . These exterior improve- ments may leave those passions in ...
... ground where volcanic fires are in a temporary slumber below . All these may be shattered and exploded by some mighty impulse of ambition , or some blast of revengeful anger . These exterior improve- ments may leave those passions in ...
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... ground . They might form an alliance most truly “ holy " for the exertion of such influence . We may be very sure that their interposed mediation to prevent wars among the other nations would be of prodigious weight ; by , -for one ...
... ground . They might form an alliance most truly “ holy " for the exertion of such influence . We may be very sure that their interposed mediation to prevent wars among the other nations would be of prodigious weight ; by , -for one ...
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Page 95 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house ; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Page 253 - Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being His counsellor hath taught Him? With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge, and shewed to Him the way of understanding...
Page 282 - Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me : that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 195 - The saints on earth, and all the dead, But one communion make ; All join in Christ, their living head, And of his grace partake.
Page 155 - AND he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint...
Page 51 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.