On Scripture difficulties, 20 discourses preached in 1822 at the lecture founded by J. Hulse

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Page 176 - righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her
Page 394 - he said, Be not grieved nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save you by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither but
Page xiv - him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains that I will tell thee of
Page 214 - builded an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake. While the earth
Page xiv - 17, 18, 19. By faith Abraham when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son,... Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called... .Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure
Page 89 - increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy" so govern and direct the works of our understandings, that through them may be ascribed unto the Father, unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost, all power, might, majesty, dominion, and praise, now, henceforth, and for evermore ! Amen.
Page 313 - And she went to enquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger. When the
Page xvi - to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt... And God sent me* before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance ... , So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God
Page 199 - In process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord .... And Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat
Page 288 - up his only-begotten son,.... Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called; .... Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

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