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Page 58 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 71 - For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Page 79 - ... and thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, and say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Page 44 - So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Page 44 - They grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition ; Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies but one heart.
Page 32 - Here would I learn how Christ has died To save my soul from hell: Not all the books on earth beside Such heavenly wonders tell. Then let me love my Bible more, And take a fresh delight By day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by night.
Page 56 - Hearken, my dearest brethren ; hath not. God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him ? 6 But you have .dishonoured the poor man.
Page 59 - Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when you shall say you have no pleasure in them.
Page 107 - E'en down to old age all my people shall prove My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love; And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn, Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be borne.
Page 107 - T^IS religion that can give Sweetest pleasures while we live; 'Tis religion must supply Solid comfort when we die.