Select Memoirs of Port Royal: To which are Appended Tour to Alet, Visit to Port Royal, Gift of an Abbess, Biographical Notices, &c. &c., Taken from Original Documents, Volume 3Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 |
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Select Memoirs of Port Royal: To which are Appended Tour to Alet ..., Volume 3 Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck No preview available - 1858 |
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Page 225 - But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Page 288 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Page 125 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God...
Page 225 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
Page 258 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Page 287 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, That obeyeth the voice of his servant, That walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord, And stay upon his God.
Page 20 - He that cometh to God, must believe that he is ; and that he is a rewarder of all them that diligently seek him.
Page 171 - ... Both the creeds and statutes may be made as follows : — First, they may be made by men who are far before the people, men who get sight of truths and duties in advance of mankind. Then these men set to mankind a hard lesson, but one which is profitable for instruction, for doctrine, for reproof, that the man of God may be thoroughly furnished to every good work.
Page 174 - He it is who is come a great light into the world, that whosoever follows him, should not walk in darkness, but should have the light of life. He is the Lamb that taketh away the sins of the whole world; yea, that bore our sins in his own body on the tree. He is the good shepherd who goes before, and calls his sheep by name. He is the good physician, who makes whole those who touch the hem of his garment; and the residue of the spirit is with him.
Page 225 - Enable us ever to realize that there is one body and one spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our calling ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism ; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all...