Future Life: Or, Scenes in Another WorldDerby & Jackson, 1858 - 359 pages |
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Page 304 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 106 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Page 66 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 106 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 42 - Christians here, and of these we have a great multitude which no man can number. of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues.
Page 359 - Unto Him that loved me, and washed me from my sins in his own blood ; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Page 96 - And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The Old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
Page 31 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page ix - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Page 67 - How they can sit and hear of the infinite height, and depth, and length, and breadth of the love of God...