Scripture Biography for the Young: With Critical Illustrations and Practical Remarks, 7. köideAmerican Tract Society, 1853 |
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... tion both show that the character of children gen- erally resembles that of their parents . Nor is it an idle inquiry , who were the companions of the early years of such men , and what examples of virtue or vice , so apt to be followed ...
... tion both show that the character of children gen- erally resembles that of their parents . Nor is it an idle inquiry , who were the companions of the early years of such men , and what examples of virtue or vice , so apt to be followed ...
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... tion peculiarly unfavorable for beginning a religious life ; but are the obstacles in your path greater than those which beset Hezekiah ? Have you a father more ungodly than Ahaz ? Do you live among a people more irreligious than the ...
... tion peculiarly unfavorable for beginning a religious life ; but are the obstacles in your path greater than those which beset Hezekiah ? Have you a father more ungodly than Ahaz ? Do you live among a people more irreligious than the ...
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... tion . Even the idolatrous and ungodly in Judah would regard him with contempt , if he faltered in a work so vigorously begun , and turned back to the worship of graven images . So , if the young convert is open and decided at the ...
... tion . Even the idolatrous and ungodly in Judah would regard him with contempt , if he faltered in a work so vigorously begun , and turned back to the worship of graven images . So , if the young convert is open and decided at the ...
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... tion , had not cut in pieces . Why he spared any we are not informed . Perhaps he reserved a part of them for the service of his idol gods . It now re- mained to cleanse the temple ; but as the Levites were not allowed to enter the ...
... tion , had not cut in pieces . Why he spared any we are not informed . Perhaps he reserved a part of them for the service of his idol gods . It now re- mained to cleanse the temple ; but as the Levites were not allowed to enter the ...
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... tion . Indeed , the priests as a body seem to have been less zealous than the Levites in coöperating with Hezekiah . They may have been more under the influence of the late king and his court than their humbler brethren . Apostasy in ...
... tion . Indeed , the priests as a body seem to have been less zealous than the Levites in coöperating with Hezekiah . They may have been more under the influence of the late king and his court than their humbler brethren . Apostasy in ...
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Page 192 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 124 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 95 - Behold, for peace I had great bitterness ; but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption : for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back. 18. For the grave cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee : they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.
Page 31 - O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord : say unto him, "Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Page 234 - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping : they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Page 219 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah : not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Page 94 - I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Page 31 - For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land : for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
Page 179 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 199 - He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him : was not this to know me ? saith the LORD.