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... daily need to lament how lifeless I am in spiritual duties of all sorts ; and yet he is a merciful God to me , notwithstanding all my non - improve- ment of opportunities , & c . But this will not satisfy me - I am not as I would be : I ...
... daily need to lament how lifeless I am in spiritual duties of all sorts ; and yet he is a merciful God to me , notwithstanding all my non - improve- ment of opportunities , & c . But this will not satisfy me - I am not as I would be : I ...
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... daily , on one score or another , rea- son to lament and bewail before a heart- searching GOD , how little it is with me as it ought to be . Such a sinful nature , and such evil propensities need daily correction and reproof : and yet ...
... daily , on one score or another , rea- son to lament and bewail before a heart- searching GOD , how little it is with me as it ought to be . Such a sinful nature , and such evil propensities need daily correction and reproof : and yet ...
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... daily led to see more and more the uncertainty and frailty of all human and creature - comforts . A little bitter spoils and mars a vast deal of sweet . Though it be ever so small and trivial a circumstance , if it rests with weight on ...
... daily led to see more and more the uncertainty and frailty of all human and creature - comforts . A little bitter spoils and mars a vast deal of sweet . Though it be ever so small and trivial a circumstance , if it rests with weight on ...
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... complain . Oh that I never may ! but the LORD grant that I may learn obedience by those things which I have al- ready suffered and been brought through , and never more open my mouth against him ! Dec. 19 . I find I have daily to abhor 40.
... complain . Oh that I never may ! but the LORD grant that I may learn obedience by those things which I have al- ready suffered and been brought through , and never more open my mouth against him ! Dec. 19 . I find I have daily to abhor 40.
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Mary Blackburn Cobb. Dec. 19 . I find I have daily to abhor myself in dust and ashes on account of inbred sin and cor- ruption , and that I feel so little likeness to , and love of my dear LORD . dear LORD . Oh whither will my over ...
Mary Blackburn Cobb. Dec. 19 . I find I have daily to abhor myself in dust and ashes on account of inbred sin and cor- ruption , and that I feel so little likeness to , and love of my dear LORD . dear LORD . Oh whither will my over ...
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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.