The Commandment with PromiseGeneral Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, Depository, Press Building, no. 46 Lumber Street, in rear of Trinity Church, Printed at the Protestant Episcopal Press, no. 46 Lumber Street, 1830 - Christian ethics - 252 pages |
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Page 21
... he has endeavored to soften the disappointment by a profusion of other presents ; and I do think , if the truth were known , that he did not like to return without the chain , and encounter the refractory behavior of his own child .
... he has endeavored to soften the disappointment by a profusion of other presents ; and I do think , if the truth were known , that he did not like to return without the chain , and encounter the refractory behavior of his own child .
Page 22
I thought it a good opportunity to prolong the present interview , by proposing to Mrs. Aston to accompany me and Maria as far as her home ; adding , I think it will help to dissipate the melancholy Anna feels from the loss of her ...
I thought it a good opportunity to prolong the present interview , by proposing to Mrs. Aston to accompany me and Maria as far as her home ; adding , I think it will help to dissipate the melancholy Anna feels from the loss of her ...
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At present , I confess , my aim and my ambition are , that my husband and myself may be the first and principal object of regard in the hearts of my beloved children ; for this end we devote ourselves to them , and adapt ourselves in ...
At present , I confess , my aim and my ambition are , that my husband and myself may be the first and principal object of regard in the hearts of my beloved children ; for this end we devote ourselves to them , and adapt ourselves in ...
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Mary was present , and listened with great attention . The thing I most feared was , that her father should once refuse compliance , as I knew it would then be fruitless to endeavor to induce him to retract .
Mary was present , and listened with great attention . The thing I most feared was , that her father should once refuse compliance , as I knew it would then be fruitless to endeavor to induce him to retract .
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For my personal attendance I must beg to be excused ; I have neither spirits nor health at present ; and for my children , I do not know what to say . I certainly should not like any new ideas to be presented to them that would weaken ...
For my personal attendance I must beg to be excused ; I have neither spirits nor health at present ; and for my children , I do not know what to say . I certainly should not like any new ideas to be presented to them that would weaken ...
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Page 196 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 89 - But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me ; he shall be free.
Page 194 - Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence : shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live ? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure ; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Page 149 - My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee ; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee ; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Page 143 - For He •established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children : that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of •God, but keep His commandments...
Page 88 - For God commanded, saying; Honour thy father and mother; and; He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Page 159 - And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
Page 288 - O Thou, by whom we come to God ! The Life, the Truth, the Way; The path of prayer Thyself hast trod : Lord, teach us how to pray.
Page 242 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 160 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
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| Title | The Commandment with Promise |
| Author | Eliza Cheap |
| Publisher | General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, Depository, Press Building, no. 46 Lumber Street, in rear of Trinity Church, Printed at the Protestant Episcopal Press, no. 46 Lumber Street, 1830 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 252 pages |
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