The Successful Merchant: Sketches of the Life of Mr. Samuel Budgett ...Hamilton, Adams, 1852 - 392 pages |
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ADAM CLARKE beautiful better blessing Bristol brother called cambric chapel character Charles Wesley Christ Christian Coleford comfort commerce counting-house dear death delight Doynton duty early endeavour faith father feel felt gain give habits hand happy heard heart heaven holy honour hope horse improvement interest Jesus JOHN FARRAR JOHN WESLEY Kilmersdon kind Kingswood Hill knew labour live look Lord master meet merchant Midsomer Norton mind morning mother Nailsea nature neighbour neighbourhood never night once pass poor pounds prayer Price principle profit prosperity Pucklechurch religion remarkable Sabbath Samuel Budgett scene seemed sell shillings soon soul spirit success Sunday tea meeting tell temple of literature things thought told trade warehouse week Wesleyan word Wrington young youth
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Page 181 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Page 366 - But seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you ? Dare you believe this promise or not ? I DARE : and will act accordingly, by God's assistance.
Page 261 - Thee may I set at my right hand, Whose eyes my inmost substance see ; And labour on at thy command, And offer all my works to thee.
Page 389 - There is my house and portion fair ; My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home : For me my elder brethren stay, And angels beckon me away, And Jesus bids me come.
Page 356 - O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength : before I go hence, and be no more seen.
Page 137 - I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: "I will guide thee with mine eye.
Page 371 - Jesus, my great High Priest, Offered His blood and died; My guilty conscience seeks No sacrifice beside : His powerful blood did once atone, And now it pleads before the throne.
Page 3 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 372 - For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better; Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.