Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. The shortness of the life of man, were it not that there is another, never-ending life to succeed, would be enough quite to discourage and dishearten us. And …
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The Pilgrim’s Progress: Apology
THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode: nay, I had undertook To make another; which, …
The City of God: Book 1: Chapter One
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Uzziah’s Pride and Punishment
2 Chronicles 26:16–23 (ESV) But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. But Azariah the priest went in …