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Of other bones they make beads, which they allege is to remind them of death. The churches are only opened twice a year, when the votaries walk round the outside three times in procession, and then go in to reverence the images, some of which are of angels, called by them Las, the greatest being the one who intercedes with God for the souls of men.
What else can they expect when they trust in works and not in the Word of God? Our liberty is founded on Christ Himself, who sits at the right hand of God and intercedes for us. Therefore our liberty is sure and valid as long as we believe in Christ. As long as we cling to Him with a steadfast faith we possess His priceless gifts. But if we are careless and indifferent we shall lose them.
Certainly, we do not deny that men who are inclined toward naturalism can and do possess love to a certain degree, but the highest exemplification of love, the love of enemies in the fullest sense of the word not only compassion on the battle-field, but the full, forgiving, blessing love which renders good for evil, and even intercedes for a personal enemy, although he may be the intentional and successful destroyer of our whole earthly happiness such a love may perhaps be demanded and admired by a naturalistic moralist under the imposing influence of the presence of such a love and in unconscious dependence on the motives of Christianity which surround him; but he will never be able to show from what point of his system it is to be deduced.
For the first time the hand appeared to shake. 'Good Spirit, he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it, 'your nature intercedes for me, and pities me. Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me by an altered life? The kind hand trembled. 'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
"To be plucked as a brand from the burning," I hear him say, fetching a mighty sigh. But sweet, calm Aunt Ruth, stitching at some spotless kerchief, intercedes. "Let us be thankful the lad hath come to us." "Bound fast in cords of vanity," deplores Uncle Kirke. "But all things are possible," Aunt Ruth softly interposes.
"And the Middletons here? They have not gone; they keep the field. And more astounding, she refuses him. And to add to it, Dr. Middleton intercedes with Mr. Dale for Sir Willoughby." "Dr. Middleton intercedes!" This was rather astonishing to Mrs. Mountstuart. "For Vernon," Miss Eleanor emphasized. "For Vernon Whitford, his cousin." said Miss Isabel, still more emphatically. "Who," said Mrs.
The Electress, indeed, intercedes for him, and would gladly persuade us that we should grant our son one year's longer sojourn at The Hague, to perfect himself in all sorts of knowledge."
Difficulties settled. Antony tired of his wife. He goes to Egypt. Antony again with Cleopatra. Effect on his character. The march to Sidon. Suffering of the troops. Arrival of Cleopatra. She brings supplies for the army. Octavia intercedes for Antony. She brings him re-enforcements. Cleopatra's alarm. Her arts. Cleopatra's secret agents. Their representations to Antony. Cleopatra's success.
The Holy Ghost addresses the Father, and is therefore not the Father. He intercedes with the Father, and so is not a mere energy of the Father. Jesus promised to send the Spirit from the Father, but the Father could not be sent from or by Himself.
But at length Cupid can no longer endure to be separated from her, and goes to Jupiter, who intercedes with Venus and wins her forgiveness for Psyche. Then the supreme god gives her immortality, and she becomes forever the wife of Cupid.
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