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... acute understanding , and a heart sus- ceptible of the tenderest emotions . Soon after my settlement in Frome , she acquired a powerful ascendency over my feelings , and became one of ry little favourites . In the parlour , the garden.
... acute understanding , and a heart sus- ceptible of the tenderest emotions . Soon after my settlement in Frome , she acquired a powerful ascendency over my feelings , and became one of ry little favourites . In the parlour , the garden.
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... heart , the elementary principles of pure religion . I endea- voured to exhibit to her view , the evil of sin , and the entire depravity of her nature . These repre- sentations usually produced a fixed solemnity in her countenance ; but ...
... heart , the elementary principles of pure religion . I endea- voured to exhibit to her view , the evil of sin , and the entire depravity of her nature . These repre- sentations usually produced a fixed solemnity in her countenance ; but ...
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... heart and an interest in the merits of the Redeem- er . The continuance of these desires , amidst the temptations to levity and amusements , to which in the company of a large number of associates , she must have been exposed , in any ...
... heart and an interest in the merits of the Redeem- er . The continuance of these desires , amidst the temptations to levity and amusements , to which in the company of a large number of associates , she must have been exposed , in any ...
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... heart did I bear the tidings home to my wife . The next night another swift messenger arrived with accounts of her approach- ing departure . This I thought would have been a death stroke to me . " They went to see her for the last time ...
... heart did I bear the tidings home to my wife . The next night another swift messenger arrived with accounts of her approach- ing departure . This I thought would have been a death stroke to me . " They went to see her for the last time ...
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... heart , and producing that at- tachment to devotional habits , which the generali- ty of young , and even aged , people contemn or neglect ; or through what external medium that grace was communicated , no one is able to de- * As the ...
... heart , and producing that at- tachment to devotional habits , which the generali- ty of young , and even aged , people contemn or neglect ; or through what external medium that grace was communicated , no one is able to de- * As the ...
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Page 190 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 78 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, ' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 37 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 209 - 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 26 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 168 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Page 61 - Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them ; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Page 193 - These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Page 71 - And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Page 62 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.