Cautions & counsels: addressed to the young1866 |
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Abigail Absalom Achan Ahimelech Ananias and Sapphira anger apostle beauty believe Belshazzar's Bible blessing brother Cain CHAPTER character Christ Christians church Clonmel covetous crime David death desire Divine drunkenness Drusilla envy Esau Esau's eternal evil example falsehood father favour Felix filial impiety fruit Gehazi give grace Haman hand happiness hath heart Herod HEROD AGRIPPA Holy honour injury intemperance Israel Jacob Jews Josephus Judas Judas Iscariot judge judgment king king's Laban leprosy look Lord Lot's wife love of money Luke master Matthew Henry mind moral Mordecai murder Naaman Nabal Nabal's churlishness ness night once parents passion Paul Paul reasoned perhaps persecution persons pleasures prayer pride profane Prov punishment reason religion repent revenge righteousness Rome Satan Saul says Scripture servants sinful Sodom soul spirit thee things thou thought tion trembled unhappy unto vice wine wise worldly young friends
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Page 139 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Page 131 - They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Page 54 - Of virtue to make wise: what hinders then To reach, and feed at once both Body and Mind ? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 46 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 152 - NOW about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
Page 142 - Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you ? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
Page 153 - And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers, to keep him ; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. Peter therefore was kept in prison ; but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him.
Page 15 - And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst...
Page 50 - When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Page 96 - I must confess I think it is below reasonable creatures to be altogether conversant in such diversions as are merely innocent, and have nothing else to recommend them, but that there is no hurt in them.