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... rests on my mind with indescribable solemnity . O may God give you grace to be faithful , and bless you with the effusion of his Spirit . " You may be gratified to hear how I succeed in this kind of business this summer . In R. a course ...
... rests on my mind with indescribable solemnity . O may God give you grace to be faithful , and bless you with the effusion of his Spirit . " You may be gratified to hear how I succeed in this kind of business this summer . In R. a course ...
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... , constituted his uniform employment on the day of sacred rest . A species of prayer frequent with him , and which he inculcated much on others , was intercession . If he wrote a letter to a friend , he observed 44 MEMOIR OF.
... , constituted his uniform employment on the day of sacred rest . A species of prayer frequent with him , and which he inculcated much on others , was intercession . If he wrote a letter to a friend , he observed 44 MEMOIR OF.
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... Rest , ' the object of which is to show how we may discern our title to the saint's rest . Re- flections , suggested by the question proposed , and the chapter read , have led me to the conclusion , that I ought to make more thorough ...
... Rest , ' the object of which is to show how we may discern our title to the saint's rest . Re- flections , suggested by the question proposed , and the chapter read , have led me to the conclusion , that I ought to make more thorough ...
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... rests with unreserved confidence on the gracious assurance . Blessed Jesus , I go - Thou wilt go with me , for thou hast promised , and thy promise will not fail . " July 14 , 1817. I have had , since I wrote last , a comfortable ...
... rests with unreserved confidence on the gracious assurance . Blessed Jesus , I go - Thou wilt go with me , for thou hast promised , and thy promise will not fail . " July 14 , 1817. I have had , since I wrote last , a comfortable ...
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... a city of 150,000 souls , the greater part Mahomme- dans , and the rest little or no better . " Can these dry bones live ? O Lord God thou knowest . ' " CHAPTER V. RESIDENCE IN SMYRNA AND SCIO IN CONNEXION WITH REV . PLINY FISK . 107.
... a city of 150,000 souls , the greater part Mahomme- dans , and the rest little or no better . " Can these dry bones live ? O Lord God thou knowest . ' " CHAPTER V. RESIDENCE IN SMYRNA AND SCIO IN CONNEXION WITH REV . PLINY FISK . 107.
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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...
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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.