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... season ; in which trying time there is much need of patience , that'there is not an attempting to come forth from the ... seasons , to endeavour to draw them out , though the clouds may not be taken off the tabernacle , and so lead them ...
... season ; in which trying time there is much need of patience , that'there is not an attempting to come forth from the ... seasons , to endeavour to draw them out , though the clouds may not be taken off the tabernacle , and so lead them ...
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... season . And , if this holy exercise of mind is continued , he shall receive of the sap and nourishment from the Fountain of Life , so that his leaf shall not wither , and whatsoever he doth shall prosper : " The steps of a good " man ...
... season . And , if this holy exercise of mind is continued , he shall receive of the sap and nourishment from the Fountain of Life , so that his leaf shall not wither , and whatsoever he doth shall prosper : " The steps of a good " man ...
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... season , and if they are slain , death is to them an end of all their sorrows . The trees , shrubs , and all the species of inanimate things , seem to discover a greater beauty , and dis- play a livelier texture of their great original ...
... season , and if they are slain , death is to them an end of all their sorrows . The trees , shrubs , and all the species of inanimate things , seem to discover a greater beauty , and dis- play a livelier texture of their great original ...
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... seasons , as they are in the hand of God : when we abound , not to be lifted up ; when in poverty and want , not to repine too much ; when afflicted , that we pray , and first seek for the spirit of grace and sup- plication that we may ...
... seasons , as they are in the hand of God : when we abound , not to be lifted up ; when in poverty and want , not to repine too much ; when afflicted , that we pray , and first seek for the spirit of grace and sup- plication that we may ...
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... season feel that peace which passeth the understanding . LETTER XXV . 4th Mo. 1755 . WE should labour to comm and our own spirits , which not being properly subjected , I believe , often prevent the spirit of truth from reigning and ...
... season feel that peace which passeth the understanding . LETTER XXV . 4th Mo. 1755 . WE should labour to comm and our own spirits , which not being properly subjected , I believe , often prevent the spirit of truth from reigning and ...
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Page 178 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Page 59 - Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution.
Page 133 - Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
Page 142 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered he threatened not ; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 237 - One thing have I desired of the Lord, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit his temple. For in the time of trouble he...
Page 14 - Many shall come from the east and west, and sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
Page 243 - Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me...
Page 68 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan...
Page 60 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Page 158 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.