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... present languages of the world , it is a simple , pri- mitive word : there is no more elementary idea from which this could have its derivation . Man needed not to see death , that he might feel its horror ; no more than he needs to see ...
... present languages of the world , it is a simple , pri- mitive word : there is no more elementary idea from which this could have its derivation . Man needed not to see death , that he might feel its horror ; no more than he needs to see ...
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... present blissful being . As his body was dust by its original composition , it would be but dust when its life should have departed : the elements would claim their portion in its substance . His spirit , the gift of God , would re ...
... present blissful being . As his body was dust by its original composition , it would be but dust when its life should have departed : the elements would claim their portion in its substance . His spirit , the gift of God , would re ...
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... present triumph . The sentence which before had been only awful , now breathed compassion . Its thunders fell upon the head of the tempter . He , like his poor instrument , the brute ser- pent , was doomed to make his path in the dust ...
... present triumph . The sentence which before had been only awful , now breathed compassion . Its thunders fell upon the head of the tempter . He , like his poor instrument , the brute ser- pent , was doomed to make his path in the dust ...
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... present population of the earth is estimated , with seeming probability , at a thousand millions . Almost six thousand years are numbered , since the creation . The first two thousand years embraced about eighteen gene- rations , before ...
... present population of the earth is estimated , with seeming probability , at a thousand millions . Almost six thousand years are numbered , since the creation . The first two thousand years embraced about eighteen gene- rations , before ...
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... present ; and then the entire number would be twenty - eight thousands of millions . To admit such a number into the imagi- nation , we can conceive that twenty - eight of the chief empires of the earth contained each a hundred pro ...
... present ; and then the entire number would be twenty - eight thousands of millions . To admit such a number into the imagi- nation , we can conceive that twenty - eight of the chief empires of the earth contained each a hundred pro ...
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amongst angels apoplexy apostles appear battle believe Bishop blessed blood body breath CHARLES WORDSWORTH Christ Christian Christian Death Church common consciousness dead death decay destroyed died disease dissolution divine doom dread dreams Duke dying Earl earth enemies England eternal everlasting expired faith fatal Father fear feel fell flesh friends glory grave hand hath heart heathen heaven Henry Henry the Fowler Holy hope hour HUGH WHITE human hundred immortal Irenæus Israel John Newton Joseph Scaliger Julius Cæsar King living Lord Byron mighty mind mortal murder Mussulmen nature Nicholas Ferrar pain Paradise passed peace peculiar perhaps perished persons pious poison prayer Prince resurrection sacrifice Saviour says scene Scriptures seems seen Sermons sins slain sleep solemn sometimes soul spirit suffering terrors things Thirty-nine Articles thou thought thousand tion triumph unto utter Vespasian victims vols WASHINGTON HEIGHTS whole words wound
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Page 235 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 283 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 55 - The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Page 212 - He took the Cup; and, when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this ; for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins : Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of Me.
Page 228 - Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Page 206 - O my Father, if this cup may not pass from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 92 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 195 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis...
Page 214 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 218 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh...