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Page 33
He loved to converse on the subject of religious experience , and would often
inquire of those with whom he was most intimate , respecting the present state of
their own hearts , their present views and feelings , their hopes , fears , difficulties
...
He loved to converse on the subject of religious experience , and would often
inquire of those with whom he was most intimate , respecting the present state of
their own hearts , their present views and feelings , their hopes , fears , difficulties
...
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I begin to inquire respecting the support you have realized , and the effect which
the afflictive event has produced on your surviving friends ; —and I enjoy the
momentary pleasure of thinking , that you and they have been supported ,
comforted ...
I begin to inquire respecting the support you have realized , and the effect which
the afflictive event has produced on your surviving friends ; —and I enjoy the
momentary pleasure of thinking , that you and they have been supported ,
comforted ...
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... purpose of religious conversation with the members , he would say ; " The next
time we pray for ourselves , we must pray for these perWhen on the way to attend
a religious meeting he would inquire ; “ On what subject shall we discourse ?
... purpose of religious conversation with the members , he would say ; " The next
time we pray for ourselves , we must pray for these perWhen on the way to attend
a religious meeting he would inquire ; “ On what subject shall we discourse ?
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Since that time I have endeavored to watch the indications of Providence , and
inquire after duty . My conviction of duty and desire to perform it increased , till I
left college . This single object , a mission to the heathen , was almost invariably ...
Since that time I have endeavored to watch the indications of Providence , and
inquire after duty . My conviction of duty and desire to perform it increased , till I
left college . This single object , a mission to the heathen , was almost invariably ...
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I am now to inquire into my title to heaven . Come then , O my soul , apply thyself
to this work . Lay aside thy love of ease , and bring all thy powers to the
investigation . Remember , thou art now to attend to thy most important concerns ,
to ...
I am now to inquire into my title to heaven . Come then , O my soul , apply thyself
to this work . Lay aside thy love of ease , and bring all thy powers to the
investigation . Remember , thou art now to attend to thy most important concerns ,
to ...
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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.
Bibliographic information
| 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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