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... Lord's table , I wondered how my fellow - students could live as I was sensible most did . - Next Lord's day , July 13 , I had some special sweetness in religion . - Again , Lord's day , July 20 , my soul was in a sweet and precious ...
... Lord's table , I wondered how my fellow - students could live as I was sensible most did . - Next Lord's day , July 13 , I had some special sweetness in religion . - Again , Lord's day , July 20 , my soul was in a sweet and precious ...
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... Lord would employ me in that work : - but now , my soul more frequently desires to die , to be with Christ , O that ... Lord's day , April 4. My heart was wandering and lifeless In the evening God gave me faith in prayer , made my soul ...
... Lord would employ me in that work : - but now , my soul more frequently desires to die , to be with Christ , O that ... Lord's day , April 4. My heart was wandering and lifeless In the evening God gave me faith in prayer , made my soul ...
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... Lord's day , April 11. In the morning , I felt but little life , excepting that my heart was somewhat drawn out in thank- fulness to God for his amazing grace and condescension to me , in past influences and assistances of his Spirit ...
... Lord's day , April 11. In the morning , I felt but little life , excepting that my heart was somewhat drawn out in thank- fulness to God for his amazing grace and condescension to me , in past influences and assistances of his Spirit ...
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... Lord . Sometimes I longed much to be dissolved , and to be with Christ . O that God would en- able me to grow in ... Lord's day , April 18. I retired early this morning into the woods for prayer ; had the assistance of God's Spirit , and ...
... Lord . Sometimes I longed much to be dissolved , and to be with Christ . O that God would en- able me to grow in ... Lord's day , April 18. I retired early this morning into the woods for prayer ; had the assistance of God's Spirit , and ...
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... Lord's , to be for ever devoted to his service ! The Lord help me to live more to his glory for the time to come . This has been a sweet , a happy day to me : blessed be God . I think my soul was never so drawn out in intercession for ...
... Lord's , to be for ever devoted to his service ! The Lord help me to live more to his glory for the time to come . This has been a sweet , a happy day to me : blessed be God . I think my soul was never so drawn out in intercession for ...
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Page 338 - Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ ; what was I, that I could withstand God? 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
Page 173 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Page 236 - And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. And behold there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem...
Page 104 - Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Page 512 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 512 - Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Page 257 - I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Page 353 - And how evident did it now appear that they received and felt them, "not as the word of man, but as the word of God!
Page 201 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 40 - And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.