The Christian's defence against the fears of death, tr. by M. D'Assigny. [Preceded by] A true relation of the apparition of one mrs Veal [by D. Defoe |
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... the most powerful and dreadful Enemies ; there is no Stratagem of the most renowned General , no Fortifications ever fo regu- lar and artificial , nor Army ever fo victorious 2 that 1 that can retard but for a Moment the Approaches.
... the most powerful and dreadful Enemies ; there is no Stratagem of the most renowned General , no Fortifications ever fo regu- lar and artificial , nor Army ever fo victorious 2 that 1 that can retard but for a Moment the Approaches.
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... Enemy . In the twinkling of an Eye it flies through the ftrongest Bulwarks , the deepest Walls , and the most prodigious Towers . It leaps over the largest Ditches , the highest Castles , and the most inacceffible Rocks . It blows down ...
... Enemy . In the twinkling of an Eye it flies through the ftrongest Bulwarks , the deepest Walls , and the most prodigious Towers . It leaps over the largest Ditches , the highest Castles , and the most inacceffible Rocks . It blows down ...
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... Enemy . But Death is always victorious ; it triumphs with an infufferable Infolence over all the Kings and Nations of the Earth ; it never returns to its Den but loaden with Spoils , and glutted with Blood . The strongest Sampfons , and ...
... Enemy . But Death is always victorious ; it triumphs with an infufferable Infolence over all the Kings and Nations of the Earth ; it never returns to its Den but loaden with Spoils , and glutted with Blood . The strongest Sampfons , and ...
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... Enemies . What Comforts can be found for the wretched Sinners , who do not only understand their final Sentence , but also hear the thundering Voice of the Great Judge of the World exafperated by their Impieties ? They may now perceive ...
... Enemies . What Comforts can be found for the wretched Sinners , who do not only understand their final Sentence , but also hear the thundering Voice of the Great Judge of the World exafperated by their Impieties ? They may now perceive ...
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... Enemies of the Commonwealth , in whofe Quarrel he took up Arms . When the Battle was loft , and all his ambitious Hopes had deceived him , being ready to ftab himself with his own Sword , he cried out , Ob miferable Virtue ! what art ...
... Enemies of the Commonwealth , in whofe Quarrel he took up Arms . When the Battle was loft , and all his ambitious Hopes had deceived him , being ready to ftab himself with his own Sword , he cried out , Ob miferable Virtue ! what art ...
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Page 222 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Page 183 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 226 - Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Page 138 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 251 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; Thy walls are continually before me.
Page 238 - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Page 256 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Page 266 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort ; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Page 83 - Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God'.
Page 235 - For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.