Life at Three-score

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第 18 頁 - Lord had appointed it or not; he charged us, before God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other Instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any truth by his Ministry. For he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy Word.
第 5 頁 - O God, forsake me not : until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
第 5 頁 - O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
第 23 頁 - burden and heat of the day," and who have toiled for objects which they have regarded as valuable.
第 41 頁 - Testament), and most of my other writings, is owing, viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life.
第 8 頁 - It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life...
第 57 頁 - has taught me something in relation to such subjects. In the early part of my Biblical studies, some 30 — 35 years ago, when I first began the critical investigation of the Scriptures, doubts and difficulties started up on every side, like the armed men whom Cadmus is fabled to have raised up. Time, patience, continued study, a better acquaintance with the original Scriptural languages, and the countries where the sacred books were written, have scattered to the winds nearly all these doubts.
第 57 頁 - Biblical studies, some thirty to thirty-five years ago," says he, " when I first began the critical investigation of the Scriptures, doubts and difficulties started up on every side, like the armed men whom Cadmus is fabled to have raised up. Time, patience, continued study, a better acquaintance with the original Scriptural languages, and the countries where the sacred books were written, have scattered to the winds nearly all those doubts. I meet, indeed...
第 46 頁 - Manuscripts, when a man writes every day, even though he writes but little, accumulate. Dr. Johnson was once asked how it was that the Christian Fathers, and the men of other times, could find leisure to fill so many folios with the productions of their pens. ' Nothing is easier,' said he ; and he at once began a calculation to show what would be the effect, in the ordinary term of a man's life, if he wrote only one octavo page in a day ; and the question was solved In this manner manuscripts accumulated...

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