Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck, Author of the Theological Dictionary, Containing the Young Christian's Guide; Or, Suitable Directions, Cautions, and Encouragement, to the Believer on His First Entrance Into the Divine Life, a Treatise on Religious Experience: in which Its Nature, Evidences, and Advantages, are Considered; Together with Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining, Alphabetically Arranged, and Interpersed with a Variety of Useful Observations, Volume 3W.W. Woodward, 1808 |
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... eyes , his pleasu hath yielded to surprise , his surprise to grief , a his grief to discouragement , until he has poss sed sufficient fortitude to close the sentence had begun ; and a season which promised univ sal delight becomes ...
... eyes , his pleasu hath yielded to surprise , his surprise to grief , a his grief to discouragement , until he has poss sed sufficient fortitude to close the sentence had begun ; and a season which promised univ sal delight becomes ...
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... eyes , and together with them the whol nervous system . They who are impelled by ne cessity to work by night and by day , must , in deed , submit with patience to their destiny ; bu that he who is master of his time should chai himself ...
... eyes , and together with them the whol nervous system . They who are impelled by ne cessity to work by night and by day , must , in deed , submit with patience to their destiny ; bu that he who is master of his time should chai himself ...
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... eye of the beholder sec to stand still , while small shallow rivulets keep noise ; or , like empty casks , that make an o streperous hollow sound , which they would n do , were they replenished , and full of substance A babbler being at ...
... eye of the beholder sec to stand still , while small shallow rivulets keep noise ; or , like empty casks , that make an o streperous hollow sound , which they would n do , were they replenished , and full of substance A babbler being at ...
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... eyes of such as he in his rambles through the city . Some he dered because they were negligently dressed ; rs because they seemed trimmed with too h nicety . He assumed the name and habit of cules , appearing publicly in a lion's skin ...
... eyes of such as he in his rambles through the city . Some he dered because they were negligently dressed ; rs because they seemed trimmed with too h nicety . He assumed the name and habit of cules , appearing publicly in a lion's skin ...
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... eye s to the following shocking scene of brutal the coasts of Patagonia . I shall present der with it in his own words . " Here t relate a little anecdote of our Christian e . He and his wife had gone off at some e from the shore , in ...
... eye s to the following shocking scene of brutal the coasts of Patagonia . I shall present der with it in his own words . " Here t relate a little anecdote of our Christian e . He and his wife had gone off at some e from the shore , in ...
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Page 104 - For every man shall bear his own burden. 6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Page 319 - Her ways. are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Page 214 - ... palaces, navigation, &c. but now sallow, &c. are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.
Page 101 - And it is pity that commonly more care is had, yea, and that amongst very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
Page 313 - Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the spirit...
Page 204 - He pleaded with the same sincerity that he used in the other parts of his life, and used to say : — It was as great a dishonour as a man was capable of, that for a little money he was to be hired to say or do otherwise than as he thought.
Page 148 - Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Page 188 - He was once a man ; and of some little name ; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Page 34 - For my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes.
Page 26 - If any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.