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... affection can I find by examination during that whole period . Nev- er did my heart exercise any love for God - never was I willing that God should reign a Sovereign on his throne . I have even wished there were no God , or that he ...
... affection can I find by examination during that whole period . Nev- er did my heart exercise any love for God - never was I willing that God should reign a Sovereign on his throne . I have even wished there were no God , or that he ...
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... affections . There can be but little if any doubt , that on this subject he erred . He became , at last , convinced of this , when subjected to the dis- advantages occasioned by his early neglect of clas- sical studies . It was the ...
... affections . There can be but little if any doubt , that on this subject he erred . He became , at last , convinced of this , when subjected to the dis- advantages occasioned by his early neglect of clas- sical studies . It was the ...
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... affections , and the tenderest concern of their instructers ; and you will find , I hope , in the end , that the word of God is able to make wise unto salvation . " You will find it important to persevere with un- remitted exertion in ...
... affections , and the tenderest concern of their instructers ; and you will find , I hope , in the end , that the word of God is able to make wise unto salvation . " You will find it important to persevere with un- remitted exertion in ...
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... affections were engrossed with the things of this world , while God and religion found no place in my heart . Whether the great change has taken place or not , I can safely state as follows : - " There was a time when my attention was ...
... affections were engrossed with the things of this world , while God and religion found no place in my heart . Whether the great change has taken place or not , I can safely state as follows : - " There was a time when my attention was ...
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... affections and views . I had new hopes and fears , new joys and sorrows , new attachments and aversions . O my God , what was that change ? Did my heart then submit to thee , or was it delusion ? Was that change only such as sinners may ...
... affections and views . I had new hopes and fears , new joys and sorrows , new attachments and aversions . O my God , what was that change ? Did my heart then submit to thee , or was it delusion ? Was that change only such as sinners may ...
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Page 50 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Page 330 - Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks ; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Page 432 - I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 402 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 404 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 309 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : then' grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Page 260 - My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart : Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.
Page 179 - THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.
Page 231 - BROTHER, thou art gone before us ; and thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, and sorrow is unknown ; From the burden of the flesh, and from care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.