Memoirs of ... mrs. Susan Huntington [ed.] by B.B. Wisner1828 |
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... father was ordained to the ministry of the Gospel in the year 1779 , and continued the Pastor of the First Church until death closed his labours in 1814. This gentleman was a native of New- Haven , a graduate of Yale College , and a ...
... father was ordained to the ministry of the Gospel in the year 1779 , and continued the Pastor of the First Church until death closed his labours in 1814. This gentleman was a native of New- Haven , a graduate of Yale College , and a ...
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... father was pastor , on the 19th of April 1807 , having just entered her seven- teenth year . About this time she commenced a private journal , which was continued till her marriage , but which she destroyed a short time before her death ...
... father was pastor , on the 19th of April 1807 , having just entered her seven- teenth year . About this time she commenced a private journal , which was continued till her marriage , but which she destroyed a short time before her death ...
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... Father is pleased to over- rule events for our happiness , it is extremely reprehensi- ble in us to be dissatisfied with any of his appointments . The prayer of the true Christian is , " Make me happy with prosperity : but , above all ...
... Father is pleased to over- rule events for our happiness , it is extremely reprehensi- ble in us to be dissatisfied with any of his appointments . The prayer of the true Christian is , " Make me happy with prosperity : but , above all ...
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... Father , " Thy will be done , " are un- doubtedly just . But let us not forget the nature of this inability . It is not such as furnishes any excuse or extenuation of our sins when we are not resigned ; but is the very thing that ...
... Father , " Thy will be done , " are un- doubtedly just . But let us not forget the nature of this inability . It is not such as furnishes any excuse or extenuation of our sins when we are not resigned ; but is the very thing that ...
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... father's letter last week . The intel- ligence it contained of the death of your beloved sister , was truly distressing . The consolations of the religion of Christ , my dear E. , invariably support the mind , if we have faith to apply ...
... father's letter last week . The intel- ligence it contained of the death of your beloved sister , was truly distressing . The consolations of the religion of Christ , my dear E. , invariably support the mind , if we have faith to apply ...
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Page 76 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 251 - If his children forsake my law: and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments : then will I visit their transgression with the rod ; and their iniquity with stripes.
Page 75 - All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Page 255 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 226 - Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Page 43 - Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb!
Page 179 - And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 351 - If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 255 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Page 36 - Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed : 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.