The Rockite. By Charlotte Elizabeth |
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abode appeared asked Ayton beneath bespoke better blessed blood Blucher cabin Captain Rock character church church of Rome companion comrades Connor countenance crime curse dare daugh death deed deep Dermody Donovan Dragoon dread Driscol Dublin exclaimed face faith farmer farther feeling fellow felt fire gang hand heard heart heaven heresy heretic holy honour horse innocent blood Ireland John Rock Julia Butler Katy's Kevin's LEATHER LANE lips look Lord Lough Derg M'Carthy Major Butler Maurice Delany ment mind of Maurice murder never night numbers O'Brien O'Rourke old Katy old woman ould Paddy party passed pause peril poor priest proceeded protestantism racter replied rest revenge rice Rockite Roman Catholic Sassenachs secret band sinners Slieve-moran soldier soul spirit spot stood stranger sure Thady thought tion tone troop turned United Irishmen uttered vengeance voice words wound wretch young Butler
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Page 179 - None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him...
Page 180 - Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
Page 230 - For the mystery of iniquity doth already work ; only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked (one) be revealed; whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
Page 180 - When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 34 - Deliver him from going down into the Pit, I have found a ransom...
Page 183 - How shall dust and ashes stand in the presence of that uncreated glory, before •which principalities and powers bow down, tremble, and adore? How shall guilty and self-condemned creatures appear before Him, in whose sight the heavens are not clean, and who chargeth His angels with folly?
Page 249 - ... and to reestablish her destructive empire, the church of Rome has made a mighty effort, and beheld that effort crowned with intoxicating success. She now follows up the advantage gained, and aims avowedly at the utter subversion of all that opposes her unchristian sway. Shall our hand be therefore paralyzed, and the millions of our fellow-subjects left unsuccoured in the pit of their destruction? God forbid ! The weapons of our warfare are not carnal ; but they are mighty to the pulling down...
Page 215 - THERE is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
Page 231 - Hearken to me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law ; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings...
Page 107 - And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever (Revelation 22:1-5).