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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... measure to melt , I hoped God would be thereby moved to pity me , my prayers then looked with some appearance of goodness in them , and I seemed to mourn for sin and then I could , in some measure , venture on the mercy of God in Christ ...
... measure to melt , I hoped God would be thereby moved to pity me , my prayers then looked with some appearance of goodness in them , and I seemed to mourn for sin and then I could , in some measure , venture on the mercy of God in Christ ...
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... measure , and gave me to taste a divine sweetness . Blessed Lord ! let me climb up near to thee , and love , and long , and plead , and wrestle with thee , and pant for de- liverance from the body of sin and death . - Alas ! my soul ...
... measure , and gave me to taste a divine sweetness . Blessed Lord ! let me climb up near to thee , and love , and long , and plead , and wrestle with thee , and pant for de- liverance from the body of sin and death . - Alas ! my soul ...
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... measure relieved by reading some passages in my diary , and seemed to feel as if I might pray to the great God again with freedom ; but was suddenly struck with a damp , from the sense I had of my own vileness . Then I cried to God to ...
... measure relieved by reading some passages in my diary , and seemed to feel as if I might pray to the great God again with freedom ; but was suddenly struck with a damp , from the sense I had of my own vileness . Then I cried to God to ...
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... measure , how exceeding vile it is , not to be wholly devoted to God . I wondered that God would suffer any of his creatures to feed and sustain me from time to time . ' 6 6 In the preceding extracts , the.reader will see that ...
... measure , how exceeding vile it is , not to be wholly devoted to God . I wondered that God would suffer any of his creatures to feed and sustain me from time to time . ' 6 6 In the preceding extracts , the.reader will see that ...
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... measure lost my hopes of God's sending me among the heathen afar off , and of seeing them flock home to Christ . I saw so much of my own vileness , that I appeared worse to myself than any devil . I wondered that God would let me live ...
... measure lost my hopes of God's sending me among the heathen afar off , and of seeing them flock home to Christ . I saw so much of my own vileness , that I appeared worse to myself than any devil . I wondered that God would let me live ...
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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...