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... expecting I should hear something very , very distressing : but my ever gracious GOD hath been abundantly better to me than my anxious fears . Oh how often do I thus disquiet myself in vain ! one would think that by continued experience ...
... expecting I should hear something very , very distressing : but my ever gracious GOD hath been abundantly better to me than my anxious fears . Oh how often do I thus disquiet myself in vain ! one would think that by continued experience ...
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... have got into a very dead bar- ren frame of spirit . I fully expect that I ' shall soon have a fresh cross to take up . I believe the LORD will not have his children thus stupid and indifferent ; and therefore there seems a 20.
... have got into a very dead bar- ren frame of spirit . I fully expect that I ' shall soon have a fresh cross to take up . I believe the LORD will not have his children thus stupid and indifferent ; and therefore there seems a 20.
Page 105
... dear hands . April 24 . How negligent am I in recounting the mercies of the LORD , which follow and in- crease towards me and mine ! have been without the rod . Not that I Such a rebel- lious worm as I am can never expect this long 105.
... dear hands . April 24 . How negligent am I in recounting the mercies of the LORD , which follow and in- crease towards me and mine ! have been without the rod . Not that I Such a rebel- lious worm as I am can never expect this long 105.
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Mary Blackburn Cobb. lious worm as I am can never expect this long together ; unless the LORD were to say in his wrath , as he did of Ephraim , " He is " joined to idols , let him alone . " How richly does my idolatrous heart deserve ...
Mary Blackburn Cobb. lious worm as I am can never expect this long together ; unless the LORD were to say in his wrath , as he did of Ephraim , " He is " joined to idols , let him alone . " How richly does my idolatrous heart deserve ...
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... more than possible . One to whom he has shown such great things cannot surely expect too much from him . With kindest love to all your dear family , I remain truly yours , & c ... M. C. LETTER IX . Margate , Dec. 1 , 1798 . 148.
... more than possible . One to whom he has shown such great things cannot surely expect too much from him . With kindest love to all your dear family , I remain truly yours , & c ... M. C. LETTER IX . Margate , Dec. 1 , 1798 . 148.
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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.