The life of the rev. David Brainerd, missionary to the North American Indians, compiled from the memoir publ. by pres. Edwards, and now re-publ. [from The Missionary register, with additions. Ed. by E. Bickersteth].1834 |
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... especially Mr. Janeway's Token for Children . I felt sometimes much melted in duties , and took great delight in the performance of them ; and I sometimes hoped that I was converted , or at least in a good and hopeful way for heaven and ...
... especially Mr. Janeway's Token for Children . I felt sometimes much melted in duties , and took great delight in the performance of them ; and I sometimes hoped that I was converted , or at least in a good and hopeful way for heaven and ...
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... especially irritated with these things follow- ing : -- 1. The strictness of the divine law . For I found it was impossible for me , after my utmost pains , to answer the demands of it . I often made new 10 LIFE OF DAVID BRAINERD :
... especially irritated with these things follow- ing : -- 1. The strictness of the divine law . For I found it was impossible for me , after my utmost pains , to answer the demands of it . I often made new 10 LIFE OF DAVID BRAINERD :
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... especially if such and such cir- cumstances might but attend my endeavours and strivings ; I hoped that I should strive more earnestly than ever , if the matter came to extremity , though I never could find the time to do my utmost , in ...
... especially if such and such cir- cumstances might but attend my endeavours and strivings ; I hoped that I should strive more earnestly than ever , if the matter came to extremity , though I never could find the time to do my utmost , in ...
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... especially verse 21. The reading or meditating on this always destroyed my seeming good frames : when I thought I was almost humbled , and almost resigned to God's sovereignty , the reading or think- ing on this passage would make my ...
... especially verse 21. The reading or meditating on this always destroyed my seeming good frames : when I thought I was almost humbled , and almost resigned to God's sovereignty , the reading or think- ing on this passage would make my ...
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... especially as none but they had heard or knew of whom he had uttered those words : yet the rector compelled them to declare what he said , and of whom he said it . ' Brainerd looked on himself as greatly abused in the management of this ...
... especially as none but they had heard or knew of whom he had uttered those words : yet the rector compelled them to declare what he said , and of whom he said it . ' Brainerd looked on himself as greatly abused in the management of this ...
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Page 13 - Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee ; in whose heart are the ways of them, who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well ; the rain also filleth the pools.
Page 61 - Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight.
Page 22 - O wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 81 - I can do nothing,' in the strictest sense, and that, ' he works in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure,
Page 61 - Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Page 307 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 314 - God in the course of her life, many years before her death, and said on her deathbed that ' she had not seen one minute for several years wherein she desired to live one minute longer for the sake of any other good in life but doing good, living to God, and doing what might be for His glory.
Page 313 - When ministers feel these special gracious influences on their hearts, it wonderfully assists them to come at the consciences of men, and as it were to handle them with hands; whereas, without them, whatever reason and oratory we make use of, we do but make ' use of stumps instead of hands.
Page 310 - ... counsel with regard to this from his own experience of the great comfort and benefit of it, ,which said he, I should not mention, were it not that I am a dying person.
Page 239 - I know of no assembly of Christians, where there seems to be so much of the presence of God, where brotherly love so much prevails, and where I should take so much delight in the public worship of God, in the general, as in my own congregation...