The Professional Years of John Henry Hobart: Being a Sequel to His "Early Years"Protestant Episcopal Press, 1836 - 500 pages |
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... believe . ' Of this afflicted family no further records remain , but they who knew the ardor and devotedness of their young pastor's feelings in after - life , will readily conceive that no pruden- tial scruples kept him back from the ...
... believe . ' Of this afflicted family no further records remain , but they who knew the ardor and devotedness of their young pastor's feelings in after - life , will readily conceive that no pruden- tial scruples kept him back from the ...
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... believe that my disposition is not suffi- ciently romantic to be invariably pleased with retirement ; for , after the novelty of the landscape has ceased , I have beheld them with a sigh , and exclaimed , " The society of one dear ...
... believe that my disposition is not suffi- ciently romantic to be invariably pleased with retirement ; for , after the novelty of the landscape has ceased , I have beheld them with a sigh , and exclaimed , " The society of one dear ...
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... believe that the Christian world is already deeply suffering under the results of the opposite course , and that the wild excesses by which some parts of the Protestant Church are now desolated , have been but the natural result of a ...
... believe that the Christian world is already deeply suffering under the results of the opposite course , and that the wild excesses by which some parts of the Protestant Church are now desolated , have been but the natural result of a ...
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... believe , in your heart , as your guide , your safeguard , and consolation . How admirably calculated is my dear friend to disseminate this truth among mankind ; to arouse them by its fearful denunciations , and to soothe them by its ...
... believe , in your heart , as your guide , your safeguard , and consolation . How admirably calculated is my dear friend to disseminate this truth among mankind ; to arouse them by its fearful denunciations , and to soothe them by its ...
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... believe that the spirit and sufferings of God's people in every age are remarkably delineated in that part of God's blessed book called the Psalms . God grant , my dear brother , that you may hold fast the testimony of Jesus . Your ...
... believe that the spirit and sufferings of God's people in every age are remarkably delineated in that part of God's blessed book called the Psalms . God grant , my dear brother , that you may hold fast the testimony of Jesus . Your ...
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Page 10 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 174 - O GOD, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee ; Mercifully grant, that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 345 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 480 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 363 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love and nothing for reward, O why should heavenly God to men have such regard *." This agrees with what is recorded of St.
Page 340 - ARE you ready, with all faithful diligence, to banish and drive away from the Church all erroneous and strange doctrine contrary to God's Word; and both privately and openly to call upon and encourage others to the same ? Answer.
Page 453 - Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 176 - The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Page 319 - For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Page 402 - With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —