Practical Hints to Honest Hearts: On Some of the Many Ways and Means of Doing Good : in a Number of Letters to Sundry Females |
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... Christians , and character of idlers ; an age which is evidently the harbinger of that in which nothing shall be enterprised but for the glory of God in the happiness of man ; when " none shall hurt or de- stroy , " but all shall be ...
... Christians , and character of idlers ; an age which is evidently the harbinger of that in which nothing shall be enterprised but for the glory of God in the happiness of man ; when " none shall hurt or de- stroy , " but all shall be ...
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... home . " And , this being the case , whenever the streams begin to fail , you know where is the fountain , whence you may draw a fresh sup- ply . You have learnt , that without Christ , nothing can be done for yourself or others . To 15.
... home . " And , this being the case , whenever the streams begin to fail , you know where is the fountain , whence you may draw a fresh sup- ply . You have learnt , that without Christ , nothing can be done for yourself or others . To 15.
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... Christian may fight the battles of the Lord more successfully in his closet , than a thou- sand ministers and missionaries of the cross in the field . But for strength obtained in an- swer to his prayers , ten thousand perhaps of those ...
... Christian may fight the battles of the Lord more successfully in his closet , than a thou- sand ministers and missionaries of the cross in the field . But for strength obtained in an- swer to his prayers , ten thousand perhaps of those ...
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... Christians are apt to fail in this point --- complaining that they can do nothing for God , when He only knows how much He is even waiting to do for himself and them , if they would only ask him with more faith and importunity . With ...
... Christians are apt to fail in this point --- complaining that they can do nothing for God , when He only knows how much He is even waiting to do for himself and them , if they would only ask him with more faith and importunity . With ...
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... Christ alone . All your instruction will of course have a tendency , some how or other , to this great object . Whatever you teach them , either by precept or example , must be designed , either directly or indirectly , to give them ...
... Christ alone . All your instruction will of course have a tendency , some how or other , to this great object . Whatever you teach them , either by precept or example , must be designed , either directly or indirectly , to give them ...
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Page 132 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Page 131 - And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Page 28 - ... foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him...
Page 41 - And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 28 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Page 15 - The path of the just is as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Page 160 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 92 - Pray ye the Lord of the Harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest — from that moment, Prayer for this object has never ceased to be the Duty of every Christian.
Page 118 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Page 164 - Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name ; for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.