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Page 47
... consolations alone can prevent their gray hairs from descending in sorrow to the grave ! The feelings of your parents are of the same force , if , as is the common order of nature , they finish their lives before you . If you are truly ...
... consolations alone can prevent their gray hairs from descending in sorrow to the grave ! The feelings of your parents are of the same force , if , as is the common order of nature , they finish their lives before you . If you are truly ...
Page 90
... consolations of the brightest ornaments of Greece and Rome , to the divine instructor who spake as never man spake , " what different senti- ments are excited ! He proposes such grounds of peace and tranquillity , as will hush every ...
... consolations of the brightest ornaments of Greece and Rome , to the divine instructor who spake as never man spake , " what different senti- ments are excited ! He proposes such grounds of peace and tranquillity , as will hush every ...
Page 91
... consolations ; and then afflictions will lose their bitterness , and those crosses of whose weight we now complain , will be borne without a struggle or a sigh . Listen , whilst to console us he points to the author of these afflic ...
... consolations ; and then afflictions will lose their bitterness , and those crosses of whose weight we now complain , will be borne without a struggle or a sigh . Listen , whilst to console us he points to the author of these afflic ...
Page 94
... consolations . Ah ! how often in visiting the mansions of poverty , of sick- ness , of distress , have I beheld the christian com- posed , submissive , even joyous , under those same visitations which filled the impious with the deepest ...
... consolations . Ah ! how often in visiting the mansions of poverty , of sick- ness , of distress , have I beheld the christian com- posed , submissive , even joyous , under those same visitations which filled the impious with the deepest ...
Page 96
... consolations : when on our knees before him , we feel our hearts dissolving with love and flowing out to his bosom , we find the rich tide of affection soon rolling back from God to our souls , and bringing with it pleasures which are ...
... consolations : when on our knees before him , we feel our hearts dissolving with love and flowing out to his bosom , we find the rich tide of affection soon rolling back from God to our souls , and bringing with it pleasures which are ...
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Page 78 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live, turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die?
Page 189 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many Angels round about the throne, and the living creatures and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice ; " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 150 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.
Page 77 - How shall I give thee up, Ephraim ? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim ? Mine heart is turned within me, My repentings are kindled together.
Page 232 - And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.
Page 259 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Page 93 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed...
Page 61 - thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this ' thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ! ' but now they are hid from thine eyes...
Page 331 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.