The Life of Col. James Gardiner, with Extracts from His Funeral SermonReligious Tract Society, 1864 - 149 pages |
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... death , and the far more dangerous allurements of vice , I feel a peculiar pleasure in being able at length , though after such long delays , to put into your hands the memoirs with which I now present you . They contain many ...
... death , and the far more dangerous allurements of vice , I feel a peculiar pleasure in being able at length , though after such long delays , to put into your hands the memoirs with which I now present you . They contain many ...
Page iv
... death was continually darting around him , and the most signal deliverances by which Providence again and again rescued him from those terrors ; till at length he was reclaimed by an ever - memorable interposition of Divine grace . Then ...
... death was continually darting around him , and the most signal deliverances by which Providence again and again rescued him from those terrors ; till at length he was reclaimed by an ever - memorable interposition of Divine grace . Then ...
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... death , and received a crown of life , seems , as it were , by what you here read , to be calling out to you from amidst the cloud of witnesses with which you are surrounded , and urging you by every gene- rous , tender , filial ...
... death , and received a crown of life , seems , as it were , by what you here read , to be calling out to you from amidst the cloud of witnesses with which you are surrounded , and urging you by every gene- rous , tender , filial ...
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... death , I was secure that if Pro- vidence continued my capacity of writing , I should not wholly disappoint the expectation ; for I was furnished with a variety of particulars which appeared to me worthy of general notice , in ...
... death , I was secure that if Pro- vidence continued my capacity of writing , I should not wholly disappoint the expectation ; for I was furnished with a variety of particulars which appeared to me worthy of general notice , in ...
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... death feel very little anguish from the most mortal wounds . This accident happened about five or six in the evening , on the 23rd day of May , in the year 1706 ; and the army pursuing its advantages against the French , without ever ...
... death feel very little anguish from the most mortal wounds . This accident happened about five or six in the evening , on the 23rd day of May , in the year 1706 ; and the army pursuing its advantages against the French , without ever ...
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Page 122 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 124 - He comes the broken heart to bind, The bleeding soul to cure : And with the treasures of his grace To enrich the humble poor.
Page 109 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him : I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him : I will be with him in trouble ; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Page 56 - O my God, my soul is cast down within me : therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Page 55 - I also heard the men themselves, that they sang with a loud voice, saying, " Blessing, honour, and glory, and power be to Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
Page 53 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, and in the power of the Holy Ghost.
Page 124 - HARK, the glad sound ! the Saviour comes ! The Saviour promised long ! Let every heart prepare a throne, And every voice a song.
Page 25 - ... he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle. But lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord JESUS CHRIST upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed, as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this ef*fect, (for he was not confident as to the very words;) " Oh sinner, did I suffer...
Page 125 - Thy grace still dwells upon my heart, And sheds its fragrance there ! The noblest balm of all its wounds, The cordial of its care. I'll speak the honours of thy name, With my last labouring breath ; Then speechless clasp thee in my arms, The antidote of death.
Page 52 - Did not our hearts burn within us/ &c. ; or rather like what Paul felt, when he could not tell whether he was in the body, or out of it.