Extracts from the Diary and Letters of Mrs. Mary CobbC. and R. Baldwin, 1805 - 324 pages |
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... hear something very , very distressing : but my ever gracious GOD hath been abundantly better to me than my anxious fears . Oh how often do I thus disquiet myself in vain ! one would think that by continued experience I should learn ...
... hear something very , very distressing : but my ever gracious GOD hath been abundantly better to me than my anxious fears . Oh how often do I thus disquiet myself in vain ! one would think that by continued experience I should learn ...
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... his sight , and it is said " if I regard iniquity in my heart , the LORD will not hear me . " Oh that he would grant me a true discovery of my secret motives and intentions ! and that he would make me to know and do his will ! 7.
... his sight , and it is said " if I regard iniquity in my heart , the LORD will not hear me . " Oh that he would grant me a true discovery of my secret motives and intentions ! and that he would make me to know and do his will ! 7.
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... hear much of what ought to be the con- duct of professors of christianity , to make religion appear amiable in the eyes of those who would otherwise despise it . The LORD help me to chuse that good part that I shall never repent of ...
... hear much of what ought to be the con- duct of professors of christianity , to make religion appear amiable in the eyes of those who would otherwise despise it . The LORD help me to chuse that good part that I shall never repent of ...
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... hear the breathings of his unworthy dust , that he may now , in an especial manner , be preserved spotless amidst the temptations and sins of an en- snaring world ; that he may be kept by the mighty power of GOD , even preserved in ...
... hear the breathings of his unworthy dust , that he may now , in an especial manner , be preserved spotless amidst the temptations and sins of an en- snaring world ; that he may be kept by the mighty power of GOD , even preserved in ...
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... Hear my many many petitions for my darling offspring - accept this my first - born , early- yea , from the very birth given up to thee , and graciously give me wisdom to act a right part in every respect towards him . May my dearest ...
... Hear my many many petitions for my darling offspring - accept this my first - born , early- yea , from the very birth given up to thee , and graciously give me wisdom to act a right part in every respect towards him . May my dearest ...
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Page 236 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 302 - I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Page 294 - I know whom I have trusted, and whom I have believed and that he is able to keep that [which] I have committed to his charge.
Page 75 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 323 - I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Page 163 - With peaceful mind thy race of duty run : God nothing does, or suffers to be done, But what thou wouldst thyself, if thou couldst see Through all events of things as well as he.
Page 222 - I love them that love me ; and they that seek me early shall find me.
Page 321 - Tis Jesus, the first and the last, Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home ; We'll praise him for all that is past, And trust him for all that's to come.
Page 188 - The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 119 - May our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while we look, not at the things seen and temporal, but at the things not seen, but eternal.