The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Philip Skelton, Rector of Fintona: To which is Prefixed Burdy's Life of the Author, 6. köideR. Baynes, 1824 |
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... poor remainder of warmth , which a sense of religion still kept alive in his aged heart , as your Ladyship will see with regret in these Hymns . When he compared them with the dignity of their subjects , and with the superior excellence ...
... poor remainder of warmth , which a sense of religion still kept alive in his aged heart , as your Ladyship will see with regret in these Hymns . When he compared them with the dignity of their subjects , and with the superior excellence ...
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... poor appearance , must often find a place . If , having little better than these to build with , the author should here and there make some- what of them above mediocrity , you will look at it , in pass- ing , just as you do at some ...
... poor appearance , must often find a place . If , having little better than these to build with , the author should here and there make some- what of them above mediocrity , you will look at it , in pass- ing , just as you do at some ...
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... poor man in Dublin , who earned a scanty sub- sistence on a loom , but found time on Sundays to read the Scriptures ... poor man , whose name is lost , as that of the poor man in Ecclesiastes , who saved a city by his wise counsel , knew ...
... poor man in Dublin , who earned a scanty sub- sistence on a loom , but found time on Sundays to read the Scriptures ... poor man , whose name is lost , as that of the poor man in Ecclesiastes , who saved a city by his wise counsel , knew ...
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... poor and weak as you are now in your mortal bodies , you have not , each of you , a living soul , which must be happy or mi- serable for ever ; whether you have in yourselves a power to preserve your health and understanding , or to ...
... poor and weak as you are now in your mortal bodies , you have not , each of you , a living soul , which must be happy or mi- serable for ever ; whether you have in yourselves a power to preserve your health and understanding , or to ...
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... poor attempt of mine would bring your hand to that of an unerring guide . To him , as a miserable blind man , I have given my own hand , and it was my common sense , that led me to him , for , hearing his voice , I perceived where he ...
... poor attempt of mine would bring your hand to that of an unerring guide . To him , as a miserable blind man , I have given my own hand , and it was my common sense , that led me to him , for , hearing his voice , I perceived where he ...
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Page 74 - But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath 'chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen; yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 78 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Page 93 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 179 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 57 - But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him ? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God.
Page 52 - Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself ? He said. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
Page 79 - It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.
Page 83 - And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Page 38 - Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers : who have received the law by the disposition of Angels, and have not kept it.
Page 82 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.