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Page 239 - If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land : But if ye refuse and rebel, Ye shall be devoured with the sword: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 198 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place...
Page 176 - So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.
Page 284 - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God ; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 239 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page 214 - Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 233 - A Short Discoverie of the Coasts and Continent of America from the Equinoctial! Northward, and of the adjacent Isles. By William Castell, Minister of the Gospell at Courtenhall, in Northamptonshire.
Page 239 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 184 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 239 - When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?