Christian Researches in Syria and the Holy Land, in 1823 & 1824. In Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society

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Crocker and Brewster, Cummings, Hilliard, 1826 - 364 sider
 

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Side 240 - good seed in his field: but, while men slept, his enemy came, and sowed tares among the •wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came, and said unto him, Sir, didst thou
Side 67 - received mercy, we faint not: but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty; not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man*s conscience in the sight of God. In the evening, Mr. Fisk preached in Italian, from Isaiah
Side 108 - as the ministers of God; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the Word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right and on the left.
Side 165 - that trust in the Lord, shall be as Mount Zion; which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever!—As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth even forever!
Side 220 - his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me: xxvi. 23. From this it may be inferred that Judas sat near to our Lord; perhaps on one side next to him. St. John, who was leaning on Jesus
Side 194 - mournful defect in moral beauty. Here, they of the captivity in Ezra's days, priests and levites, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men that had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice, on beholding the inferiority of the second. Here, the Hebrew and the Christian may now, also, mingle their tears over the violation
Side 255 - suspicion. Let them aim, therefore, at sustaining such gravity and modesty, that, by the sight of their spotless conversation among the nations, he, who is of the contrary part, may be ashamed, having no evil thing to speak concerning them.
Side 182 - shall fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life! (Deut. xxviii. 66.) The money was, clearly, the sole motive for this proceeding—a new governor, in this devoted city, generally making his advances, by rapid steps, first to the
Side 230 - Here it was," he observes, "that Barak, descending with his ten thousand men from mount Tabor, discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron; and all the people that were with him, gathered from Harosheth of the Gentiles, unto the river of Kishon; when
Side 31 - shall it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? -Beware lest the fear of losing some transient and temporal advantages occasion you the loss of an eternal blessing. Follow, rather, the example of the Patriarch of Alexandria

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