The United Presbyterian MagazineWilliam Oliphant and Sons, 1865 |
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... objects we set in contrast . There were men and women in King Solomon's day - so the text discloses — who , under the influence of feelings similar to those I have been describing , put the question , What is the cause that the former ...
... objects we set in contrast . There were men and women in King Solomon's day - so the text discloses — who , under the influence of feelings similar to those I have been describing , put the question , What is the cause that the former ...
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... object is to correct the in- jurious tendency of my friend's version of what took place , and to show that , al- though unconsciously on his part , it is not trustworthy ; and , indeed , would im- pute to the members of Synod a want of ...
... object is to correct the in- jurious tendency of my friend's version of what took place , and to show that , al- though unconsciously on his part , it is not trustworthy ; and , indeed , would im- pute to the members of Synod a want of ...
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... object in that rude age , than one of these holy men retiring to some lonely island of the sea , and there , in solitude , with none of the comforts , and a small share of the neces- saries of life , spending his time in holding ...
... object in that rude age , than one of these holy men retiring to some lonely island of the sea , and there , in solitude , with none of the comforts , and a small share of the neces- saries of life , spending his time in holding ...
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... object of revelation is not to instruct us as to the secrets of nature , but to make us wise in matters pertaining to our salvation . The Word of God may incidentally touch on subjects bearing upon physical science , but it never ...
... object of revelation is not to instruct us as to the secrets of nature , but to make us wise in matters pertaining to our salvation . The Word of God may incidentally touch on subjects bearing upon physical science , but it never ...
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... object that no trace of such a chaos occurs in the geological formations . This is the very thing which the divine record avoids saying , with a foresight which , without anticipating science , completely escapes collision with its ...
... object that no trace of such a chaos occurs in the geological formations . This is the very thing which the divine record avoids saying , with a foresight which , without anticipating science , completely escapes collision with its ...
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Page 395 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...
Page 16 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 4 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots : and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; and shall make 1 Exod.
Page 4 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be...
Page 4 - But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth, and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Page 171 - Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas...
Page 115 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 13 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 520 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 551 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.