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" For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. "
The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion - Page 204
edited by - 1841
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments (according ..., Volume 3

Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1102 pages
...and it shall be a vexation only 9 to understani the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a ma) ll praise thee, as I do this day : ' the father to the children shall make known thy trut 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in moun n Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of ° Gibeon,...
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The Irish Unitarian Magazine, Issues 1846-1847

784 pages
...Almighty arm to shield from the wrath of offended justice ; that the bed " is shorter than that a man cau stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Now, it must bo admitted, that if tliese objections are well founded, Uuitarianism does not give a...
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The retrospect, an enquiry into the fulfilment of prophecy during ..., Volume 3

Retrospect - 1847 - 374 pages
...shall it pass over, by day and by night ; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeou, that...
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The Protestant magazine, Volume 9

Protestant association - 1847 - 424 pages
...sinner find by trusting to works and doings of his own ? No, in the expressive words of inspiration, " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Hubert had felt this truth with bitter force on his bed of sickness, in the near prospect of eternity,...
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The Claims of the Tabernacle Church: To be Considered the Third Church in ...

Tabernacle Church (Salem, Mass.) - 1847 - 118 pages
...cannot be true. We know they are not. " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it ; and the covering narrower, than that he can wrap himself in it. !" Had " this Book of Records," we are told, (p. 26,) "been at that time, (1785) in the possession...
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Thoughts and Counsels for the Impenitent. ...

James Munson Olmstead - 1848 - 300 pages
...or what state he is in. Of the common morality which is current in the world it may be said, that " the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." There is one great, prominent deficiency in it. There is no true love to God in its composition. It...
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The Lord's Supper

David King - 1846 - 332 pages
...most prevalent and reputed evasion is, that sin may be atoned for by repentance and amendment. But ' the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.'* By no magistracy under heaven is this principle approved of or acted on — that penalty shall be always...
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Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents ...

Samuel Rutherford - 1848 - 846 pages
...with self and the creature! " Is not here the bed shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it i and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it i" 3 When shall we attain to a living in only, only God! and be estranged from all the poor created...
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The Doctrine of Holy Baptism: with Remarks on the Rev. W. Goode's "Effects ...

Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1849 - 342 pages
...of such power and comprehension, as to exercise a permanent control over the progress of thought. " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." If the general laws of morals, or the Church's faith, as it was proclaimed at Nice, are too wide and...
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The Works of the Rev. Robert Hall, A.M.: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 4

Robert Hall - 1849 - 702 pages
...have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood we have hid ourselves :" for, as it is here added, " the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it ;" the bed and the covering of our own imaginary righteousness. In the closing words of the text, it...
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