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... favour of the doctrine of immediate revelation , I never was so tho- roughly convinced of it as in my late illness : never had so clear a sensation of a being , dis- tinct from my own mind , immediately and instantaneously enlightening ...
... favour of the doctrine of immediate revelation , I never was so tho- roughly convinced of it as in my late illness : never had so clear a sensation of a being , dis- tinct from my own mind , immediately and instantaneously enlightening ...
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... favour of our God : who affords light to see thy wants , and strength to cry mightily to him for relief : in such a state , my soul has been bowed , and made to worship at his footstool ; in that , he vouchsafed the sense of want , and ...
... favour of our God : who affords light to see thy wants , and strength to cry mightily to him for relief : in such a state , my soul has been bowed , and made to worship at his footstool ; in that , he vouchsafed the sense of want , and ...
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... favour . And , O how happy are all those that can so quietly submit in all things ! In order thereunto , let us , con- sider that they are distributed to mankind in his abundant wisdom and counsel . But there is another sort of ...
... favour . And , O how happy are all those that can so quietly submit in all things ! In order thereunto , let us , con- sider that they are distributed to mankind in his abundant wisdom and counsel . But there is another sort of ...
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... favour those who have no might of their own , as to guard them with his own arm by day and night , gently leading those that are with young , bearing them in his arms . LETTER XIX . THOUGH time and strength seem to fail more fully to ...
... favour those who have no might of their own , as to guard them with his own arm by day and night , gently leading those that are with young , bearing them in his arms . LETTER XIX . THOUGH time and strength seem to fail more fully to ...
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... favour and under the protection of divine Providence , and no necessary good thing , spiritual or temporal , will be wanting . LETTER XXVIII . 5th Mo. 1762 . THAT crafty enemy with whom we have to contend , well knows how to turn the en ...
... favour and under the protection of divine Providence , and no necessary good thing , spiritual or temporal , will be wanting . LETTER XXVIII . 5th Mo. 1762 . THAT crafty enemy with whom we have to contend , well knows how to turn the en ...
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Page 182 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Page 63 - Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution.
Page 137 - Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
Page 146 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered he threatened not ; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 241 - One thing have I desired of the Lord, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit his temple. For in the time of trouble he...
Page 18 - Many shall come from the east and west, and sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
Page 247 - Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me...
Page 72 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan...
Page 64 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Page 162 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.