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... old age , if happily we reach old age , is a second childhood . Withered , weak and bowed be- neath our infirmities , we become as it were a living hospital of woes : a burden to ourselves , and perhaps an incumbrance to those we love ...
... old age , if happily we reach old age , is a second childhood . Withered , weak and bowed be- neath our infirmities , we become as it were a living hospital of woes : a burden to ourselves , and perhaps an incumbrance to those we love ...
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... old age ? Say we not so . For the commander of an army best knows when to call the centinel from his post . Every man in this world hath his office and station assigned by Heaven , and continueth there- in so long as it pleaseth the ...
... old age ? Say we not so . For the commander of an army best knows when to call the centinel from his post . Every man in this world hath his office and station assigned by Heaven , and continueth there- in so long as it pleaseth the ...
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... old , the feeble nor the strong , the rich nor the poor , the beggar in his rags , nor the proudest ruler in his ... age , death might be disarmed of his sting and spoiled of his victory ! If to die were only the lot of a few , we ...
... old , the feeble nor the strong , the rich nor the poor , the beggar in his rags , nor the proudest ruler in his ... age , death might be disarmed of his sting and spoiled of his victory ! If to die were only the lot of a few , we ...
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... old age ! Boast not , therefore , of your youth or strength or beauty , but in the hopes you entertain , and the resolution you have formed of preparing yourselves , to live a SERMON V. 71.
... old age ! Boast not , therefore , of your youth or strength or beauty , but in the hopes you entertain , and the resolution you have formed of preparing yourselves , to live a SERMON V. 71.
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... old age , past even the small enjoyments of that feeble state , the poor abject pensioners , perhaps , of that benevolence , which they never knew how to extend to others ! Gracious heaven ! can this be the real substance , or ...
... old age , past even the small enjoyments of that feeble state , the poor abject pensioners , perhaps , of that benevolence , which they never knew how to extend to others ! Gracious heaven ! can this be the real substance , or ...
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Page 165 - And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 177 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 159 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 161 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man ; no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Page 161 - The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity ; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire ; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 48 - And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 157 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Page 82 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
Page 83 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 20 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.