Extracts from the Diary and Letters of Mrs. Mary CobbC. and R. Baldwin, 1805 - 324 pages |
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... pleasures and pursuits which had before engaged her attention . A considerable time elapsed , in which , like most young converts , she was alter- nately the subject of hopes and fears , of joys and sorrows ; sometimes more , at others ...
... pleasures and pursuits which had before engaged her attention . A considerable time elapsed , in which , like most young converts , she was alter- nately the subject of hopes and fears , of joys and sorrows ; sometimes more , at others ...
Page 96
... pleasure of my GoD was I brought on the 23d of this month , with my dear children all in perfect health . Oh what an inestimable mercy ! This time twelvemonth was a season of the sharpest affliction I have ever known ; and to this day ...
... pleasure of my GoD was I brought on the 23d of this month , with my dear children all in perfect health . Oh what an inestimable mercy ! This time twelvemonth was a season of the sharpest affliction I have ever known ; and to this day ...
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... pleasure . Many thanks for her good wishes to me respecting my better part . Surely it should be an abid- ing consolation to the christian , that in all his various changes and trials here , he may have a refuge in an immutable and ...
... pleasure . Many thanks for her good wishes to me respecting my better part . Surely it should be an abid- ing consolation to the christian , that in all his various changes and trials here , he may have a refuge in an immutable and ...
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... pleasure I heard of the LORD's favourable appearance in behalf of your sister . For this merciful deliverance vouchsafed her , I trust she will have a thankful and a grateful heart . The best congratulation I can offer on this occasion ...
... pleasure I heard of the LORD's favourable appearance in behalf of your sister . For this merciful deliverance vouchsafed her , I trust she will have a thankful and a grateful heart . The best congratulation I can offer on this occasion ...
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... pleasure your welcome letter afforded me . After so long a silence , I began to despair of hearing from you again . I can , however , freely forgive all that is past , if you will but promise me to be better for the future , and 123 TO ...
... pleasure your welcome letter afforded me . After so long a silence , I began to despair of hearing from you again . I can , however , freely forgive all that is past , if you will but promise me to be better for the future , and 123 TO ...
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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.