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Page 3
If fome things in these manuscripts appear trifling , bear with them . Had I thought
it worth time and pains , to have written them over a second time , it is likely ,
several things now found in them had been dropped . Mean while it may
reasonably ...
If fome things in these manuscripts appear trifling , bear with them . Had I thought
it worth time and pains , to have written them over a second time , it is likely ,
several things now found in them had been dropped . Mean while it may
reasonably ...
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However , that they were the genuine fruits of my corrupt nature I do evidently fee
; in that , however bitter both of these had been to me , I did fome years after run ,
of my own accord , into two fnares much of the same kinds , narrowly alto ...
However , that they were the genuine fruits of my corrupt nature I do evidently fee
; in that , however bitter both of these had been to me , I did fome years after run ,
of my own accord , into two fnares much of the same kinds , narrowly alto ...
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Hiving taken these things under consideration , I was that fame night almost
resolved to comply with the call of that prefbytery for entering on trials before
them . But just next morning I received a letter from Mr Murray , desiring me to
come with ...
Hiving taken these things under consideration , I was that fame night almost
resolved to comply with the call of that prefbytery for entering on trials before
them . But just next morning I received a letter from Mr Murray , desiring me to
come with ...
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... a symbolising with patronages , and below the dignity of the sacred character :
and I never durft do any thing in these matters which might predetermine me ; bur
behoved always to leave the inatter open and entire , to lay before the Lord for ...
... a symbolising with patronages , and below the dignity of the sacred character :
and I never durft do any thing in these matters which might predetermine me ; bur
behoved always to leave the inatter open and entire , to lay before the Lord for ...
Page 54
I prayed , read , meditated , struggled , urged my heart with these scriptures ,
Matth . X . 39 . Prov . xxviii . 21 . Acts xvii . 26 . hard pur to it , but still in hope the
Lord would not leave me to transgress for a piece of bread . ” But as I was putting
off ...
I prayed , read , meditated , struggled , urged my heart with these scriptures ,
Matth . X . 39 . Prov . xxviii . 21 . Acts xvii . 26 . hard pur to it , but still in hope the
Lord would not leave me to transgress for a piece of bread . ” But as I was putting
off ...
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Page 209 - Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
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Page 339 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
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Page 147 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
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| Title | Memoirs of the Life, Time, and Writings, of the Reverend and Learned Thomas Boston ...: Divided Into Twelve Periods |
| Author | Thomas Boston |
| Publisher | A. Murray and J. Cochran, 1776 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 565 pages |
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