The Diary of Mistress Kate Dalrymple: 1685-1735James Nisbet and Company 21 Berners Street, 1856 - 109 pages |
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Page 26 - I shall see him, but not now : I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 28 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Page 54 - God in the midst of her doth dwell; nothing shall her remove : The Lord to her an helper will, and that right early prove.
Page 21 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 105 - Though every hair of my head were a man, I would die all those deaths for Christ and his cause...