Memoirs of the Life, Time, and Writings, of the Reverend and Learned Thomas Boston ...: Divided Into Twelve PeriodsA. Murray and J. Cochran, 1776 - 565 pages |
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... value more than gold . I remember not but another inftance of that nature , which I thall alfo mention in the due place . I blefs the Lord , who gave me counsel then and afterwards , to feek and gave 1696 . 21 Mr THOMAS BOSTON .
... value more than gold . I remember not but another inftance of that nature , which I thall alfo mention in the due place . I blefs the Lord , who gave me counsel then and afterwards , to feek and gave 1696 . 21 Mr THOMAS BOSTON .
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Divided Into Twelve Periods Thomas Boston. gave me counsel then and afterwards , to feek and value converfation with ferious Chriftians , in the places where my lot was caft ; being confident , I had much advantage thereby towards my ...
Divided Into Twelve Periods Thomas Boston. gave me counsel then and afterwards , to feek and value converfation with ferious Chriftians , in the places where my lot was caft ; being confident , I had much advantage thereby towards my ...
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... feek the fpiritual good of the family , and to watch over them , and fee to their manners . Accordingly I kept up family - wor- ship , catechised the fervants , preffed the careless to secret prayer , reproved and warned against finful ...
... feek the fpiritual good of the family , and to watch over them , and fee to their manners . Accordingly I kept up family - wor- ship , catechised the fervants , preffed the careless to secret prayer , reproved and warned against finful ...
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... feek his help . In the morning before I went to the kirk , I renewed covenant with God in my chamber ; and I had much encouragement from the help of the prayers of my godly friends in Clackmannan , who , I trusted , were concerned for ...
... feek his help . In the morning before I went to the kirk , I renewed covenant with God in my chamber ; and I had much encouragement from the help of the prayers of my godly friends in Clackmannan , who , I trusted , were concerned for ...
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... feek a minifter from the Lord . About the beginning of Auguft , Mr Wylie wrote to the prefbytery of Stirling , in name of the presbytery of Dunfermline , defiring them to allow me to come a day or two to them ; the which they abfolutely ...
... feek a minifter from the Lord . About the beginning of Auguft , Mr Wylie wrote to the prefbytery of Stirling , in name of the presbytery of Dunfermline , defiring them to allow me to come a day or two to them ; the which they abfolutely ...
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Page 339 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
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