Extracts from the Letters of Elizabeth, Lucy, and Judith Ussher : Late of the City of Waterford |
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affectionate afflicted Almighty aunt banqueting house baptisms believe beloved Eliza beloved friend beloved mother blessed Bristol children of God children of men comfort consolation dear Eliza dear Judith dear Lord dear love dear mother dearest Eliza dearly beloved delightful desire enabled enjoy enjoyment eternal everlasting exer faith favour fear feel felt fiery furnace flesh fountain fulness Give my dear glory gospel grace grieved hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE hear heart heaven heavenly Father holy hope JUDITH USSHER keep LETTER II LETTER XII live Lucy's mercy mustard seed never outward path peace pise pleasure praise precious soul promised received rection rejoice remembering resignation righteousness salvation Saviour season seemed sensible shew silence sins Sister Judith small still voice spirit strength suffer sure sweet Lucy thee ther things thou thought tion trials truly trust truth unto unworthy wait waters wish words
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Page 29 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 3 - The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Page 64 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Page 4 - As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
Page 48 - Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 38 - Thou givest us beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
Page 36 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven...
Page 68 - remember, I know in whom I have believed, and that He holds the winds in his fist, and the waters in the hollow of his hand.
Page 55 - Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Page 71 - O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.