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Page 15
Destitute of a sense of dependance on the renewing influences of the Holy Spirit ,
I was trusting to works , to be performed at a future day , and under the influence
of the carnal mind which is enmity against God . “ In the summer and autumn of ...
Destitute of a sense of dependance on the renewing influences of the Holy Spirit ,
I was trusting to works , to be performed at a future day , and under the influence
of the carnal mind which is enmity against God . “ In the summer and autumn of ...
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And I am fully persuaded that I should have continued in my sins , and rejected
the Saviour , and grieved away the Spirit , had not God , of his own good
pleasure , applied to my heart'the washing of regeneration and the renewing of
the Holy ...
And I am fully persuaded that I should have continued in my sins , and rejected
the Saviour , and grieved away the Spirit , had not God , of his own good
pleasure , applied to my heart'the washing of regeneration and the renewing of
the Holy ...
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The spirit with which he pursued his studies may be learned from his
correspondence . In a letter to one of his brothers , after giving an abstract of a
philosophical lecture which he had just heard , he thus concludes : “ In
contemplating the ...
The spirit with which he pursued his studies may be learned from his
correspondence . In a letter to one of his brothers , after giving an abstract of a
philosophical lecture which he had just heard , he thus concludes : “ In
contemplating the ...
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And may the grace Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit . ” It is a fact , which we
have thought proper not to conceal , that Mr. Fisk's classical education was
imperfect . His deficiences , however , were by no means to be attributed to want
of ...
And may the grace Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit . ” It is a fact , which we
have thought proper not to conceal , that Mr. Fisk's classical education was
imperfect . His deficiences , however , were by no means to be attributed to want
of ...
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Let me never adopt sentiments , or form determinations hastily . Enable me to
resist the influence of all unhallowed motives ; give me a spirit of devotion ; make
me , studious and faithful . May I be prudent and zealous , humble and decided ...
Let me never adopt sentiments , or form determinations hastily . Enable me to
resist the influence of all unhallowed motives ; give me a spirit of devotion ; make
me , studious and faithful . May I be prudent and zealous , humble and decided ...
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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.
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| Title | Memoir of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, A.M.: Late Missionary to Palestine |
| Authors | Alvan Bond, Pliny Fisk |
| Publisher | Crocker and Brewster, 1828 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 437 pages |
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