Infidelity: Its, Aspects, Causes, and Agencies: Being the Prize Essay of the British Organization of the Evangelical Alliance ...

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R. Carter & brothers, 1854 - 620 pages
 

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Page 430 - But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Page 432 - We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren.
Page 44 - He that planted the ear, shall He not hear ? He that formed the eye, shall He not see...
Page 262 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuons eye, 'And smiling say —
Page 180 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Page 265 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 330 - This people draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoreth Me with their lips ; but their heart is far from Me.
Page 348 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 111 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 197 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

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