Friends' Miscellany, Volume 4John Comly, Isaac Comly editors, 1833 |
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... rest- less in our religious meetings . On this account the poor , exercised little remnant frequently feel their minds heavy laden with con- cern , having to suffer with the seed that is pressed down in the hearts of those careless ones ...
... rest- less in our religious meetings . On this account the poor , exercised little remnant frequently feel their minds heavy laden with con- cern , having to suffer with the seed that is pressed down in the hearts of those careless ones ...
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... rest . Children are not given to any , or born into the world , in a state of hardness of heart , and alienation from God . Parents have not to labour to bring them out of that state ; no , no : but their business is to preserve them in ...
... rest . Children are not given to any , or born into the world , in a state of hardness of heart , and alienation from God . Parents have not to labour to bring them out of that state ; no , no : but their business is to preserve them in ...
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... rest ! What more shall I say of him ? It is no flattery to eulogize the dead . He was one that was often in the deeps ; he mourned the desolations of Zion , though few knew the travail of his spirit . He was a man of a strong mind ...
... rest ! What more shall I say of him ? It is no flattery to eulogize the dead . He was one that was often in the deeps ; he mourned the desolations of Zion , though few knew the travail of his spirit . He was a man of a strong mind ...
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... rest with thee . J. B. The following additional tribute to her memory is deemed worthy of preservation . On the death of ANN CARLILE , daughter of Da- niel and Elizabeth Carlile , who died at West- town School . How transitory are all ...
... rest with thee . J. B. The following additional tribute to her memory is deemed worthy of preservation . On the death of ANN CARLILE , daughter of Da- niel and Elizabeth Carlile , who died at West- town School . How transitory are all ...
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... rest . Though he was not able to converse much ; yet , throughout the whole of his sickness , he retained his faculties with little exception , and was capable of directing for himself , what he wished to have done , saying the last ...
... rest . Though he was not able to converse much ; yet , throughout the whole of his sickness , he retained his faculties with little exception , and was capable of directing for himself , what he wished to have done , saying the last ...
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Page 61 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 27 - God who is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
Page 209 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 60 - Here is firm footing ; here is solid rock ! This can support us ; all is sea besides • Sinks under us ; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.
Page 38 - I know no man in all Arabia who can offer his kindred a more excellent thing than I now do you; I offer you happiness both in this life, and in that which is to come: God Almighty hath commanded me to call you unto him; who, therefore, among you will be assisting to me herein, and become my brother, and my vicegerent?
Page 215 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it...
Page 209 - And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it 1 wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 209 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 107 - Deut. xvi. 20, and to do to others as we would they should do to us.
Page 273 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.