The Aged Pilgrim's Triumph Over Sin and the Grave: Illustrated in a Series of Letters Never Before PublishedWilder & Campbell, 1825 - 271 pages |
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... expect this will come in season to tell you , that while you are read- ing it , I hope my heart will be thinking of you , and desiring a Sabath's blessing upon you and yours , I shall then be preparing to meet my beloved people at St ...
... expect this will come in season to tell you , that while you are read- ing it , I hope my heart will be thinking of you , and desiring a Sabath's blessing upon you and yours , I shall then be preparing to meet my beloved people at St ...
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... expect to be very busy to - morrow , and there- fore while I am smoking my pipe before supper , I take up my pen to you . Ah , madam , I could not have known you and Mr. T. without loving you , though I had never visited you at S. but ...
... expect to be very busy to - morrow , and there- fore while I am smoking my pipe before supper , I take up my pen to you . Ah , madam , I could not have known you and Mr. T. without loving you , though I had never visited you at S. but ...
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... expecting every time the ship plunged , that she would rise no more . preservation was surely miraculous . Oh , how un- fit was I then to die , and oh , how unfit to live ! But spared , and having obtained help of Him who sent from on ...
... expecting every time the ship plunged , that she would rise no more . preservation was surely miraculous . Oh , how un- fit was I then to die , and oh , how unfit to live ! But spared , and having obtained help of Him who sent from on ...
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... expect that my abilities either for preaching or writing will continue very long . The shadows of evening cannot be very distant from me . It is therefore probable that the " Messiah " will be my last book from the press ; and if so , I ...
... expect that my abilities either for preaching or writing will continue very long . The shadows of evening cannot be very distant from me . It is therefore probable that the " Messiah " will be my last book from the press ; and if so , I ...
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... LETTER XIII . MY DEAR FRIENDS , You might well expect to hear from us before now ; I should have let you know that the carpet came safe , which is all I have to say of it . How it looks , how it fits , and how much it is admired 34.
... LETTER XIII . MY DEAR FRIENDS , You might well expect to hear from us before now ; I should have let you know that the carpet came safe , which is all I have to say of it . How it looks , how it fits , and how much it is admired 34.
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Page 213 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 78 - They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing, that in heaven they had a better and more enduring substance ; they accounted " all things as loss in comparison of the excellency of Christ Jesus...
Page 175 - Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power...
Page 203 - WHENE'ER I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see ! What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me ? Not more than others I deserve, Yet God has given me more ; For I have food, while others starve, Or beg from door to door.
Page 117 - Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee !
Page 210 - World, and cause them to be in the Fear of the Lord all the Day long.
Page 209 - I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, striving together for the faith of the gospel.
Page 43 - It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes, 'г The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
Page 183 - I was dumb, and opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.
Page 37 - Blessed is the man whom the Lord reproveth, and reject not thou the warning of the Almighty. For He causes sorrow, and again restores [to gladness]; He woundeth, and His hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea, in the seventh no evil shall touch thee.