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... affections on things above , " and to seek " an inheritance in- " corruptible and glorious , and that fadeth " not away ! " - At an hour , perhaps , when she least expected , Mrs. C. was called upon to attend the sick bed of a be- loved ...
... affections on things above , " and to seek " an inheritance in- " corruptible and glorious , and that fadeth " not away ! " - At an hour , perhaps , when she least expected , Mrs. C. was called upon to attend the sick bed of a be- loved ...
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... affection : and yet , I think I could wish that the needed reproof should also be sea- sonably given ; but then with a mixture of parental love and regard , and never without a single eye to the glory of God and the good of the child ...
... affection : and yet , I think I could wish that the needed reproof should also be sea- sonably given ; but then with a mixture of parental love and regard , and never without a single eye to the glory of God and the good of the child ...
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... affection and prudence towards him ; so to behave , as to leave no room for reflection from him in riper years , from his dear and honoured father , or from the ac- cusations of a tender conscience in myself , which I trust I shall be ...
... affection and prudence towards him ; so to behave , as to leave no room for reflection from him in riper years , from his dear and honoured father , or from the ac- cusations of a tender conscience in myself , which I trust I shall be ...
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... affectionate , faithful friend and servant , has been this day taken from me . Under apprehensions of this dif- ficulty for many years , I have been oft times ready to sink . She was the guide of my youth . I mean she was my instructer ...
... affectionate , faithful friend and servant , has been this day taken from me . Under apprehensions of this dif- ficulty for many years , I have been oft times ready to sink . She was the guide of my youth . I mean she was my instructer ...
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... affections - I am not like the same person . Oh wretched that I am ! Surrounded with every thing that heart can wish , as it respects this world , I cannot yet be completely happy , as I seem to be living at a distance from GOD . By and ...
... affections - I am not like the same person . Oh wretched that I am ! Surrounded with every thing that heart can wish , as it respects this world , I cannot yet be completely happy , as I seem to be living at a distance from GOD . By and ...
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Page 236 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 302 - I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Page 294 - I know whom I have trusted, and whom I have believed and that he is able to keep that [which] I have committed to his charge.
Page 75 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 323 - I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Page 163 - With peaceful mind thy race of duty run : God nothing does, or suffers to be done, But what thou wouldst thyself, if thou couldst see Through all events of things as well as he.
Page 222 - I love them that love me ; and they that seek me early shall find me.
Page 321 - Tis Jesus, the first and the last, Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home ; We'll praise him for all that is past, And trust him for all that's to come.
Page 188 - The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 119 - May our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while we look, not at the things seen and temporal, but at the things not seen, but eternal.