Extracts from the Diary and Letters of Mrs. Mary CobbC. and R. Baldwin, 1805 - 324 pages |
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... nature ardent in her affections , her mind , without divine consolation , would have been over- whelmed with sorrow ; but she ex- pressed to a friend who visited her at this melancholy period , the blessedness of those who have the ...
... nature ardent in her affections , her mind , without divine consolation , would have been over- whelmed with sorrow ; but she ex- pressed to a friend who visited her at this melancholy period , the blessedness of those who have the ...
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... natural spirits , either one way or the other . Oh that I may , by having such repeated experience of his devices , get more acquainted with them , and be the better able to resist them ! March 22 . I do sensibly feel that in my present ...
... natural spirits , either one way or the other . Oh that I may , by having such repeated experience of his devices , get more acquainted with them , and be the better able to resist them ! March 22 . I do sensibly feel that in my present ...
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... nature , and such evil propensities need daily correction and reproof : and yet if he were to enter into judgment with me for the very least of my sins and offences against him , conscious I am that I should never be able to stand the ...
... nature , and such evil propensities need daily correction and reproof : and yet if he were to enter into judgment with me for the very least of my sins and offences against him , conscious I am that I should never be able to stand the ...
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... ra- ther while I am in it , I say , well , if I am but delivered out of this , I will never doubt him any more ; but how shamefully con- trary do I act ! As soon as any thing of the like nature occurs , so soon , do I behave 45.
... ra- ther while I am in it , I say , well , if I am but delivered out of this , I will never doubt him any more ; but how shamefully con- trary do I act ! As soon as any thing of the like nature occurs , so soon , do I behave 45.
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Mary Blackburn Cobb. like nature occurs , so soon , do I behave in the same distrusting manner and in this , the enemy greatly helps me , by pointing out to my terrified imagination , that there is something more formidable and dark in ...
Mary Blackburn Cobb. like nature occurs , so soon , do I behave in the same distrusting manner and in this , the enemy greatly helps me , by pointing out to my terrified imagination , that there is something more formidable and dark in ...
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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.