Memoir of Philip and Rachel Price ...E. K. Price and P. M. Price, 1852 - 192 pages |
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... cern and exercise may , like the bread cast upon the waters , be found after many days . I can freely acknow- ledge that the tender care of my pious parents was the means , under the guidance of best wisdom , of preserving me in my ...
... cern and exercise may , like the bread cast upon the waters , be found after many days . I can freely acknow- ledge that the tender care of my pious parents was the means , under the guidance of best wisdom , of preserving me in my ...
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... cern for all who had claims as relatives and friends . In the years 1800 and 1801 , John Hall , an English minister , was a frequent inmate in the family of P. and R. Price , and his cheerful temper and pleasant humour made his company ...
... cern for all who had claims as relatives and friends . In the years 1800 and 1801 , John Hall , an English minister , was a frequent inmate in the family of P. and R. Price , and his cheerful temper and pleasant humour made his company ...
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... cern was weighty and exercising to our minds ; and the contents of thy letter were so cordial and encouraging that it seemed indeed like bearing up of the hands that were ready to hang down under the weight of the exer- cise . Thus are ...
... cern was weighty and exercising to our minds ; and the contents of thy letter were so cordial and encouraging that it seemed indeed like bearing up of the hands that were ready to hang down under the weight of the exer- cise . Thus are ...
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... cern and anxiety . The truthful beauty and efficacy of their faith , by time and experience , have become more convincingly apparent . This corrective experience has in a degree involved the task of unlearning what had been learned ...
... cern and anxiety . The truthful beauty and efficacy of their faith , by time and experience , have become more convincingly apparent . This corrective experience has in a degree involved the task of unlearning what had been learned ...
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... cern of devoted parents , and it is fitting that it should be transmitted , as perhaps the most valuable legacy of the writer to his own children . The world has recently been shocked by the annunciation that even cultivated woman ...
... cern of devoted parents , and it is fitting that it should be transmitted , as perhaps the most valuable legacy of the writer to his own children . The world has recently been shocked by the annunciation that even cultivated woman ...
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Page 127 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, 0 Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach...
Page 55 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ; Thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sit'st above these Heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 72 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Page 72 - In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.
Page 116 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 90 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Page 44 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 89 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Page 159 - Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you; and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Page 99 - But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.