Extracts from the Diary and Letters of Mrs. Mary CobbC. and R. Baldwin, 1805 - 324 pages |
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... look for happiness in this world , and from the creatures which inhabit it ; since they are all in a state of mutability , and each proclaims vanity to the spectator . In this search of happiness , too often hath my soul been found ...
... look for happiness in this world , and from the creatures which inhabit it ; since they are all in a state of mutability , and each proclaims vanity to the spectator . In this search of happiness , too often hath my soul been found ...
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... look back and see how I have been brought thus far , contrary to my expectations , and I am sure contrary to my deservings ; it ought ( for my conso- lation ) to be the language of my heart , " That he would never have shewn me such 66 ...
... look back and see how I have been brought thus far , contrary to my expectations , and I am sure contrary to my deservings ; it ought ( for my conso- lation ) to be the language of my heart , " That he would never have shewn me such 66 ...
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... look steadily on death , without that discomposure which too generally attends me , when reminded that I am mortal . My way is still hedged up . O my soul , is it not a thorny path ? Do I not too often wish for death , only to be ...
... look steadily on death , without that discomposure which too generally attends me , when reminded that I am mortal . My way is still hedged up . O my soul , is it not a thorny path ? Do I not too often wish for death , only to be ...
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... look at " the things which are seen " and are temporal , but those that are not seen , and are eternal . " To be , as having or possessing , yet as not possessing ; indeed , in all things , to " use this world as not 66 abusing it ...
... look at " the things which are seen " and are temporal , but those that are not seen , and are eternal . " To be , as having or possessing , yet as not possessing ; indeed , in all things , to " use this world as not 66 abusing it ...
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... to speak- I dread the deceitfulness of my own heart , lest my future conduct towards him ( which the LORD in mercy prevent ! ) should belie my present professions of regard and tenderness . The LORD looks to the heart , and knows how 50.
... to speak- I dread the deceitfulness of my own heart , lest my future conduct towards him ( which the LORD in mercy prevent ! ) should belie my present professions of regard and tenderness . The LORD looks to the heart , and knows how 50.
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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.