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Page 188 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 188 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
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Page 209 - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you : continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love ; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Page 406 - Him ;" or the language of the prophet, " although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat ; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation
Page 285 - I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
Page 222 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 253 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
Page 114 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, yea they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
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| Title | Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters, Volume 1 Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters, Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell The making of modern law |
| Author | Elizabeth Gurney Fry |
| Editors | Katharine Fry, Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell |
| Publisher | C. Gilpin, J. Hatchard, 1847 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2007 |
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