The Works of Mrs. Sherwood: Being the Only Uniform Edition Ever Published in the United States ...Harper & Brothers, 1834 |
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... children cannot understand these grave and elaborate discourses . I have therefore written for your instruction on this subject a story about some little children , who , like yourselves , were born in a state of sin . And in this story ...
... children cannot understand these grave and elaborate discourses . I have therefore written for your instruction on this subject a story about some little children , who , like yourselves , were born in a state of sin . And in this story ...
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... children ; dwelling in their house , lying in their bosoms , walking out with them when they went abroad , and sitting down with them at all their meals : neither in- deed was there any thing done in the family , great or small , in ...
... children ; dwelling in their house , lying in their bosoms , walking out with them when they went abroad , and sitting down with them at all their meals : neither in- deed was there any thing done in the family , great or small , in ...
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... children moved towards him ; and behold , Inbred- Sin shrank back and hid himself . I heard then that Evangelist ... children : " Are you not very young , and will it not be many years before you become old ? and when you are old , will ...
... children moved towards him ; and behold , Inbred- Sin shrank back and hid himself . I heard then that Evangelist ... children : " Are you not very young , and will it not be many years before you become old ? and when you are old , will ...
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... child , God will not punish you for your faults as he will punish those of maturer age who know better . " " But I ... children , but must go on pilgrimage ; why then you must needs go . It is not necessary , however , that you should ...
... child , God will not punish you for your faults as he will punish those of maturer age who know better . " " But I ... children , but must go on pilgrimage ; why then you must needs go . It is not necessary , however , that you should ...
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... child ? What sin can this little boy have been guilty of ? But that same Evangelist , who turned the heads of his ... children preparing to be gone : for the pain and anguish which Humble Mind had suffered from the attacks of Conviction ...
... child ? What sin can this little boy have been guilty of ? But that same Evangelist , who turned the heads of his ... children preparing to be gone : for the pain and anguish which Humble Mind had suffered from the attacks of Conviction ...
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Page 93 - All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Page 140 - Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Page 13 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 184 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Page 153 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort ; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Page 34 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 152 - I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of : but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Page 80 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be : but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him ; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.
Page 87 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 143 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.