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... pious and illustri- ous patriarchs , to converse with his friends , and to give them his last and best advice . And as he had , some time before , committed to Solomon the care of his family and government of his kingdom ; so he felt a ...
... pious and illustri- ous patriarchs , to converse with his friends , and to give them his last and best advice . And as he had , some time before , committed to Solomon the care of his family and government of his kingdom ; so he felt a ...
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... pious ancestors , in neglecting family religion and family government . They brought up their children and those committed to their care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord , and warned them against every appearance of evil . They ...
... pious ancestors , in neglecting family religion and family government . They brought up their children and those committed to their care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord , and warned them against every appearance of evil . They ...
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... pious education . They ought , in season , to teach them the knowledge of God , the nature of religion , the beauty of virtue , and the deformity of vice . They ought to enforce all their instructions by their own amiable and virtuous ...
... pious education . They ought , in season , to teach them the knowledge of God , the nature of religion , the beauty of virtue , and the deformity of vice . They ought to enforce all their instructions by their own amiable and virtuous ...
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... pious , are often over- come , by the force of example , to say and do things which they resolve not to say and do in their calm and retired hours . Joseph did not allow himself in profaneness , yet it seems the example of courtiers ...
... pious , are often over- come , by the force of example , to say and do things which they resolve not to say and do in their calm and retired hours . Joseph did not allow himself in profaneness , yet it seems the example of courtiers ...
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... pious men , indulge themselves in vain and unprofitable conversation on the Sabbath ? Is it not chiefly owing to the example of the company into which they unhappily fall ? Why do so many temperate men , on public days , sit and drink ...
... pious men , indulge themselves in vain and unprofitable conversation on the Sabbath ? Is it not chiefly owing to the example of the company into which they unhappily fall ? Why do so many temperate men , on public days , sit and drink ...
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Page 483 - Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do ; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him...
Page 480 - And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 432 - Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 91 - He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Page 153 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Page 112 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 364 - ... backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful ; who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Page 255 - Although my house be not so with God; yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow.
Page 352 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 313 - For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?