Extracts from the Diary and Letters of Mrs. Mary CobbC. and R. Baldwin, 1805 - 324 pages |
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... kind and indulgent Father and Friend ? Surely not ! and yet how faint , how languid are our sayings , are our writings , unless something out of the ordinary way is manifested , to be as a kind . of stimulus to set our cold hearts and ...
... kind and indulgent Father and Friend ? Surely not ! and yet how faint , how languid are our sayings , are our writings , unless something out of the ordinary way is manifested , to be as a kind . of stimulus to set our cold hearts and ...
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... kind and merciful God who evidently interposed on our behalf . For this , I hope , I felt a grate- ful spirit ; but ah ! how desperately wicked is my heart ! no sooner does the LORD do away one trial , than I make myself another ! I ...
... kind and merciful God who evidently interposed on our behalf . For this , I hope , I felt a grate- ful spirit ; but ah ! how desperately wicked is my heart ! no sooner does the LORD do away one trial , than I make myself another ! I ...
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... praise thee for thy late kind interference in behalf of my dear mother . Thou didst rescue her from the jaws of death ! My faith was sorely put to the test . I had a trial before , in part- ing with one that is very near and dear to 18 .
... praise thee for thy late kind interference in behalf of my dear mother . Thou didst rescue her from the jaws of death ! My faith was sorely put to the test . I had a trial before , in part- ing with one that is very near and dear to 18 .
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... kind and preserving God has permitted me to enter upon a new year - Oh that a con- tinuation of life may fit me for death ! My soul , what hast thou been brought through within the last two years ! When I think upon the many waves that ...
... kind and preserving God has permitted me to enter upon a new year - Oh that a con- tinuation of life may fit me for death ! My soul , what hast thou been brought through within the last two years ! When I think upon the many waves that ...
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... kind indulgent GOD , who manages all our concerns with an unerring hand ! But I am so soon shaken and tossed to and fro by my own wretched feelings ! Since I wrote here , my very dear , deservedly dear , husband has been again af ...
... kind indulgent GOD , who manages all our concerns with an unerring hand ! But I am so soon shaken and tossed to and fro by my own wretched feelings ! Since I wrote here , my very dear , deservedly dear , husband has been again af ...
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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.