Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Halyburton: With an Appendix, Embracing an Account of the Church of Scotland During the Times of Halyburton

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J. Johnstone, 1848 - 320 sider

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Side 167 - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. "What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Side 149 - Who can understand his errors ? Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Side 40 - If any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Side 65 - with calves of a year old? will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Side 93 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone-wall thereof was broken down.
Side 299 - He complained of his head, but said, " In a battle there must be blood and dust: ' Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood.' It is meet that I should be so hard put to it, that I may know to whom I owe my strength.
Side 309 - In a battle there must be blood and dust: ' Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood.' It is meet that I should be so hard put to it, that I may know to whom I owe my strength. 0 that I were at the
Side 94 - a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest and finding none. Then he saith, I will return to my house from whence I came out: and when he cometh, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself,
Side 119 - the captivity of Zion, we were like men that dreamed. Our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.
Side 125 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.

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