The Heavenly Footman: Or, A Description of the Man that Gets to Heaven: with Directions how to Run So as to ObtainAmerican Baptist Publication Society, 1851 - 95 pages |
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118 ARCH STREET 25 cents AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION ANDREW FULLER AUTHOR'S EPISTLE BAPTISM BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY betimes bosom Canaan cross curse death devil dost thou doth Esau eternal farther fear flesh glory go to heaven God's hath heaven must run heaven's gates HEAVENLY hell hinder INFANT BAPTISM JOHN BUNYAN JOHN FRINK kingdom of heaven lazy look Lot's wife lusts methinks mocked morocco pleasures poor soul prize professor race righteousness run apace run for heaven running back saints saith Christ saith Paul salvation Satan SCRIPTURE servants shut sinner slothful for heaven sluggard standeth tell thee things thither thou art thou dost thou hast thou mayst thou must go thou shalt thou shouldst thy heart thy journey thy own soul thy sins thy soul thyself tion unto USE.-Again weary Wilt thou wouldst ye be slothful ye may obtain
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Page 23 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 39 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Page 22 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 36 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Page 34 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Page 18 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air ; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.
Page 57 - For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Page 91 - The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Page 43 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Page 34 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us...