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But I exhorte yow, that ye love the word of God, your salvatioun, and suffer patientlie, and with a confortable harte, for the wordis saik, which is your undoubted salvatioun and everlesting conforte.
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May 28, 2010 at 12:34 pm for hebbens saik, rnt wii gittein a lil tew PC dere?
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Edinburgh; thareafter browght back, for the fassionis saik, to the hous of Hales [378] agane, which was the principall place that then the Erle
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Of suth, my Lordis, I have redd in the Evangell, that thare ar three kynd of chast men: some ar gelded frome thare motheris wombe; some ar gelded by men; and some have gelded thame selfis for the kingdome of heavinis saik: verrelye, I say, these men ar blessed by the Scripture of
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In oppin audience thay declair the auctoratie of Princeis and Magistratis to be of God; and thairfoir thay affirme, that thay aucht to be honourit, feirit, obeyit, evin for conscience saik; providit that thay command nor requyre nathing expreslie repugning to Godis commandiment and plane will, reveillit in his holy worde.
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Bot for the wordis saik, and trew Evangell, which was gevin to me by the grace of
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O Lord, we know suirlie, that thy trew servandes most neidis suffer, for thy names saik, persecutioun, afflictioun, and troubles in this present lyef, which is but a schaddow, as thow hast schewed to us, by thy Propheittis and
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The spoile was permitted to the poore: for so had the preacheouris befoir threatned all men, that for covetousnes saik none shuld putt thare hand to suche a Reformatioun, that no honest man was enriched thairby the valew of a groate.
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Now is the day of his battell in this realme: Yf ye deny us, your bretherin, suffering for his name's saik, ye do also deny him, as him self doeth witnes in these wordis, "Whatsoevir ye did to any of these litill ones, that ye did to me; and what ye did nocht to one of those litill ones, that ye did nocht to me."
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chained_bear commented on the word saik
"A Turkish vessel, very common in the Levant, used for hte conveyance of merchandise. It has only one mast, which, together with its top-mast, is extremely high."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 422
October 11, 2008