Guide to the Oracles: Or, The Bible Student's Vade-mecumWilliam Murray, 1858 - 341 pages |
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... Bible , has since been used to print the very volume they so vainly sought to destroy . Thus has the Word of the Lord lived and tri- umphed . Portions of it were written thousands of years THE PRESERVATION OF THE BIBLE . 15.
... Bible , has since been used to print the very volume they so vainly sought to destroy . Thus has the Word of the Lord lived and tri- umphed . Portions of it were written thousands of years THE PRESERVATION OF THE BIBLE . 15.
Page 30
... de- mands a vigorous exercise of the understanding . No man that has ever lived could be said to have read it through . Many , indeed , have perused its pages from beginning to end , but these have always 30 THE FRESHNESS OF THE BIBLE .
... de- mands a vigorous exercise of the understanding . No man that has ever lived could be said to have read it through . Many , indeed , have perused its pages from beginning to end , but these have always 30 THE FRESHNESS OF THE BIBLE .
Page 108
... lived like a man we hope you will die like one ; " he observed to one near him , " You see , sir , what miserable comforters I have . " He declared , on one occasion , " that if ever the devil had an agent upon earth , he had been one ...
... lived like a man we hope you will die like one ; " he observed to one near him , " You see , sir , what miserable comforters I have . " He declared , on one occasion , " that if ever the devil had an agent upon earth , he had been one ...
Page 124
... lived after the time of the judges , and he is generally thought to be Samuel . To him Jew- ish tradition also ascribes it . It derives its title from the fact that it gives us the history of the Israelites under the administration of ...
... lived after the time of the judges , and he is generally thought to be Samuel . To him Jew- ish tradition also ascribes it . It derives its title from the fact that it gives us the history of the Israelites under the administration of ...
Page 130
... lived at that time , and are known by the title of the great Synagogue . The five following books are more simply religious than most of the preceding . They are called poeti- cal books , because they are chiefly written in verse in the ...
... lived at that time , and are known by the title of the great Synagogue . The five following books are more simply religious than most of the preceding . They are called poeti- cal books , because they are chiefly written in verse in the ...
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Acts Ahaz ancient Apocrypha Apostle Assyria Babylon Bible Blessed Book of Proverbs called Canaan captivity chapters Christian Chron Church contains covenant David death destruction Deut Divine Egypt epistle Ezek Ezra faith father GENESIS glory God's gospel Haggai hath heart Hebrew Herod Heze Holy infidel Isaiah Israel Israelites James Jeroboam II Jerusalem Jesus Christ Jews John Joshua Judah Judea Judges kingdom Kings lived Lord Luke Matt ment mercy moral Moses Nebuchadnezzar ness Old Testament Paul prophecy prophet Prov Psalms REFERENCES reign religion Revelation righteous sacred Sadducees salvation Samaria Samuel Saviour says Scriptures Song of Solomon soul spirit sublime Syria temple thee things thou tion translation truth unto Uzziah verses viii word writings written xvii xviii xxii xxiv Zech
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Page 73 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 235 - And his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Page 244 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of Moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 100 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.
Page 289 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Page 290 - Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance ? But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God...
Page 234 - How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil ; for God was with him.
Page 57 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Page 289 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh : for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven...
Page 75 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from when the rivers come, thither they return again.