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Page xi
... feelings of devotion , and their hopes of immortality ; and thus gain some strength to our own . By their failures ... feeling much within , that prompts us to go and do likewise . " B There was favorite aim and object to keep them alive.
... feelings of devotion , and their hopes of immortality ; and thus gain some strength to our own . By their failures ... feeling much within , that prompts us to go and do likewise . " B There was favorite aim and object to keep them alive.
Page xii
... feelings in regard to his profession are yet more fully discovered in a letter written just after he began to preach . " I am , as you may suppose , now in a state of feeling and views , to which life has never before called me . I look ...
... feelings in regard to his profession are yet more fully discovered in a letter written just after he began to preach . " I am , as you may suppose , now in a state of feeling and views , to which life has never before called me . I look ...
Page xvi
... feelings and prospects . He knew that religion did not consist in being forward to tell the secrets of the soul . He did not conceal , however , from those who had a right to know his thoughts , that he thought his days were numbered ...
... feelings and prospects . He knew that religion did not consist in being forward to tell the secrets of the soul . He did not conceal , however , from those who had a right to know his thoughts , that he thought his days were numbered ...
Page xvii
... feelings of piety , which deliverance awakens , will not decay . God grant that mine may be as permanent and influential as they ought to be ! " In another letter he speaks of his attendance on public worship , which he was just able to ...
... feelings of piety , which deliverance awakens , will not decay . God grant that mine may be as permanent and influential as they ought to be ! " In another letter he speaks of his attendance on public worship , which he was just able to ...
Page xxxii
... feelings and sentiments of either Waverley , the Rambler , or Jeremy Taylor . The Rambler indeed furnished me more entertainment and instruction than any other book . The uniformity of the prospect all around us soon became tiresome ...
... feelings and sentiments of either Waverley , the Rambler , or Jeremy Taylor . The Rambler indeed furnished me more entertainment and instruction than any other book . The uniformity of the prospect all around us soon became tiresome ...
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Page 148 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 205 - For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing ? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? For ye are our glory and joy.
Page 91 - And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Page 93 - I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Page 38 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page xii - Now, Spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Page 340 - Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in vain.
Page 97 - God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow...
Page 208 - For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Page xxix - How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.