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Joy In Temptations
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January 15—Morning Devotion
"I was brought low, and he helped me."—Psalm 116:6 It is blessed sometimes that the streams of creature comforts should be dry, in order to compel us to go to the fountain head. When the fig-tree doth not blossom and the field yields no meat, then a covenant God is precious to fly to. My soul, say, was not that…
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105 Religious Lectures
Religious Lectures Are discourses or sermons delivered by ministers on any subject in theology. Beside lectures on the sabbath day, many think proper to preach on week days; sometimes at five in the morning, before people go to work, and at seven in the evening, after they have done. In London there is preaching almost every forenoon and evening in…
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 5, Verse 14
“Now we exhort you, brethren, etc.]” This is said either to the ministers of the word that laboured among them, presided over them, and admonished them; and the rather, because some of these things here directed to are pressed upon the members of the church in (1 Thessalonians 5:11) and which otherwise must make a repetition here; or to the…
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January 14—Morning Devotion
"And she said to the king, it was a true report that I heard in mine own land, of thy acts, and of thy wisdom. Howbeit, I believed not the words until I Came and mine eyes had seen it: and beheld, the half was not told me!"—I Kings 10:6-7 If the queen of the South was so astonished in…
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104 Concordance
CONCORDANCE A dictionary or index to the Bible, wherein all the leading words are ranged alphabetically, and the books, chapters, and verses wherein they occur referred to, to assist in finding out passages, and comparing with the several significations of the same word. Cardinal Hugo de St. Charo seems to have been the first who compiled a concordance to the…
