The Christian Disciple, Volume 4Cummings and Hillard, 1822 |
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... O Father , to choose the darkness rather than the light , to prefer evil to good , false- hood to truth , vanity to honour , sense to soul , and slavery to New Series - vol . IV . 1 freedom ; permit us not to wander perversely and darkly.
... O Father , to choose the darkness rather than the light , to prefer evil to good , false- hood to truth , vanity to honour , sense to soul , and slavery to New Series - vol . IV . 1 freedom ; permit us not to wander perversely and darkly.
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and dwelling from harm , and bring us to the light of another morning , better inclined and enabled to serve thee than we ever yet have been . We implore thy mercy and grace , for ourselves and for all men , in the name of Jesus Christ ...
and dwelling from harm , and bring us to the light of another morning , better inclined and enabled to serve thee than we ever yet have been . We implore thy mercy and grace , for ourselves and for all men , in the name of Jesus Christ ...
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... light in comparison ? We can hardly look abroad and see one unhappy man , whom piety would not make contented and even happy . Is he poor ? He trusts in God that he shall not be permitted either to perish , or to suffer more than he can ...
... light in comparison ? We can hardly look abroad and see one unhappy man , whom piety would not make contented and even happy . Is he poor ? He trusts in God that he shall not be permitted either to perish , or to suffer more than he can ...
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... light , no advantage over the man who feels and gropes his way in the darkness of pagan ignorance . How is the business of ordinary life conducted , and under what circumstances may men most securely calculate on success in the concerns ...
... light , no advantage over the man who feels and gropes his way in the darkness of pagan ignorance . How is the business of ordinary life conducted , and under what circumstances may men most securely calculate on success in the concerns ...
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... light , render earth a paradise , and leave us little else to ask of God than that immortality below , which is revealed to our faith and hopes beyond the grave . REMARKS ON A MATHEMATICAL ARGUMENT FOR TRINITARIAN DOCTRINES . FOR THE ...
... light , render earth a paradise , and leave us little else to ask of God than that immortality below , which is revealed to our faith and hopes beyond the grave . REMARKS ON A MATHEMATICAL ARGUMENT FOR TRINITARIAN DOCTRINES . FOR THE ...
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Page 317 - Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Page 334 - He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Page 98 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 279 - Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
Page 25 - Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray ; Who, not content that former worth stand fast, Looks forward, persevering to the last, From well to better, daily self-surpast...
Page 24 - Tis he whose law is reason, who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill...
Page 24 - Is placable, because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness...
Page 316 - For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me : him shall ye hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Page 317 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul, neither said any of them, that aught of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common.
Page 397 - The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face to shine upon you. and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.