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... engaged in other cares and pursuits . Just after my grandfather's death , it seemed to be a time of extraordinary dulness in religion . Licentiousness for some years greatly prevailed among the youth of the town ; they were many of them ...
... engaged in other cares and pursuits . Just after my grandfather's death , it seemed to be a time of extraordinary dulness in religion . Licentiousness for some years greatly prevailed among the youth of the town ; they were many of them ...
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... engaged the more earnestly to seek that they might come to be accepted of God , and saved in the way of the gospel , which had been made evident to them to be the true and only way . And then it was , in the latter part of December ...
... engaged the more earnestly to seek that they might come to be accepted of God , and saved in the way of the gospel , which had been made evident to them to be the true and only way . And then it was , in the latter part of December ...
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... engaged to such a degree in the same affair , that it is ever uppermost in their thoughts ; they will naturally make it the subject of conversation when they get together , in which they will grow more and more free . Restraints will ...
... engaged to such a degree in the same affair , that it is ever uppermost in their thoughts ; they will naturally make it the subject of conversation when they get together , in which they will grow more and more free . Restraints will ...
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... engaged her in a firm resolution to do her utmost to obtain the same blessing . Considering with herself what course she should take , she thought , that she had not a SECT . III . 53 Illustrated in particular Instances . This work ...
... engaged her in a firm resolution to do her utmost to obtain the same blessing . Considering with herself what course she should take , she thought , that she had not a SECT . III . 53 Illustrated in particular Instances . This work ...
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... engaged in reading the Bible and other books , that she continued in it , searching for something to relieve her , till her eyes were so dim , that she could not know the letters . While she was thus engaged in reading , prayer , and ...
... engaged in reading the Bible and other books , that she continued in it , searching for something to relieve her , till her eyes were so dim , that she could not know the letters . While she was thus engaged in reading , prayer , and ...
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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.