The Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 3Cortlandt Van Rensselaer W. H. Mitchell (etc.), 1857 |
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Page 97 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 122 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law, to do them.
Page 117 - Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution.
Page 122 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 113 - And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; And the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; And they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, And they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.
Page 100 - And not rather (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come ? whose damnation is just.
Page 100 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 100 - ... and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasions of sin, and withal gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world and the power of Satan ; whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves even under those means which God useth for the softening of others.
Page 124 - The promise of the Gospel is, that whosoever believeth in Christ crucified shall not perish, but have everlasting life ; which promise, together with the command to repent and believe...
Page 126 - She opened her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue was the law of kindness ; a stem of high descent and elevation.