Cottage Musings: Or, Select Pieces in Prose and Verse

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Press of H. R. Piercy, 1835 - 184 sidor
 

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Sida 157 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Sida 164 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Sida 154 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Sida 156 - Now then," said the powerful orator in conclusion, " stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made you free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage (Gal.
Sida 153 - Lamb ; it is the fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteousness of the saints.
Sida 5 - God sometimes chooses the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.
Sida 156 - I will receive you," &c. ; and again, " Come out of her my people, come out of her (Babylon) that ye partake not of her sins, that ye receive not of her plagues.
Sida 155 - ... Christ was near, they had walked, as it were, by sight. But now, bowed down by disappointed hopes, they could stand only by faith in God and in his Word. The scoffing world were saying, " You have been deceived. Give up your faith, and say that the Advent movement was of Satan." But God's Word declared, "If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in . him.
Sida 9 - Saltoun entertained of the influence of ballads upon the inferior classes, that he is reported to have said, " if he could but make the ballads of a nation, he would care very little who made the religion ofit."— EVzcyc. Perth., v. "Ballad.
Sida 156 - ... earnest notes upon it. As soon as the notes of the flute were heard, the lion turned round and dashed away into the thicket; and Agape saw him no more, but instead of his loud angry growl, it seemed as if the refreshing breeze in the tree-tops formed itself into words, and it said to him, "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation." " Resist the devil, and he shall flee from you.

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