The Tent and the Altar: Or, Sketches from Patriarchial LifeJohn P. Jewett, 1854 - 365 páginas |
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... look upon the white cliffs we are leaving , or at the blue hills that dissolve by distance into the denser blue ; it is a sorrowful and a painful thing to leave the land where we breathed our first breath , and the inhabitants , whose ...
... look upon the white cliffs we are leaving , or at the blue hills that dissolve by distance into the denser blue ; it is a sorrowful and a painful thing to leave the land where we breathed our first breath , and the inhabitants , whose ...
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... look into the future . We have all a taste for divination , we all like to prophesy , if we only think we can succeed ; we delight in constantly turning our backs upon the past , and penetrating the depths of the future , if we can ...
... look into the future . We have all a taste for divination , we all like to prophesy , if we only think we can succeed ; we delight in constantly turning our backs upon the past , and penetrating the depths of the future , if we can ...
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... , why we see dark shades , not brightening prospects , when we try to look into the future . One reason is , that we judge of the future atheisti ! cally . We exclude from it the element that will 22 THE TENT AND THE ALTAR .
... , why we see dark shades , not brightening prospects , when we try to look into the future . One reason is , that we judge of the future atheisti ! cally . We exclude from it the element that will 22 THE TENT AND THE ALTAR .
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... Look upon the future without God , and you must gaze upon a future without one ray of sustaining hope . But God's name is , “ I am , and was , and am to come . " In other words , God will be just as truly in the future as ever he was in ...
... Look upon the future without God , and you must gaze upon a future without one ray of sustaining hope . But God's name is , “ I am , and was , and am to come . " In other words , God will be just as truly in the future as ever he was in ...
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... look into the future , is that we judge of it carnally , that is , we think that is bad which we feel to be pain , and that is necessarily good which tastes to us as pleasure ; and yet pain is not necessarily evil , and pleasure may not ...
... look into the future , is that we judge of it carnally , that is , we think that is bad which we feel to be pain , and that is necessarily good which tastes to us as pleasure ; and yet pain is not necessarily evil , and pleasure may not ...
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Abra Abraham affliction altar amid apostle Apostle Paul atheism beautiful believe Bible blessed blood burnt offering Canaanite chapter Christian church communion covenant dead death earth everlasting faith faith Abraham Father fear feel felt fulfilment give glorious glory God's gospel grace Hagar Hagarene happy hath hear heart heaven Holy Spirit human inspiration Isaac Jacob Jehovah-jireh judgment King Lamb land learned by experience light live look Lord Lot's wife man's Melchizedek mercy midst Mount Sinai never obedience patriarch peace perfect Perizzite pray prayer preach precious present priest promise Protestantism quarrel rejoiced religion rest revealed rich righteousness sacrifice sanctified Saracens Sarah Scriptures shadow sinner sins Sodom Sodom and Gomorrah sorrow soul speak suffering sunshine tent thee things Thou God seest thought throne tion true truth unto walk weary words Zoar
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Página 202 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Página 142 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Página 143 - Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Página 138 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac ; and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said ; That in Isaac shall thy seed be called ; accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Página 70 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men...
Página 353 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God...
Página 109 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 108 - And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and...
Página 64 - Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors: Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Página 2 - And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, " In thee shall all nations be blessed.