The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards: President of the College of New JerseyAndrew Wright, 1804 - 372 pages |
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... glorious opportunity of giving deadly wounds to the body of fin , and great- ly confirming and establishing the new nature : to feek to mortify fin , and increase in holiness : these are the beit opportunities , according to January 14 ...
... glorious opportunity of giving deadly wounds to the body of fin , and great- ly confirming and establishing the new nature : to feek to mortify fin , and increase in holiness : these are the beit opportunities , according to January 14 ...
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... glorious way of falvation by him . I had an inward , fweet fense of these things , that at times came into my heart ; and my foul was led away in pleasant views and contemplations of them . And my my mind was greatly engaged to spend my ...
... glorious way of falvation by him . I had an inward , fweet fense of these things , that at times came into my heart ; and my foul was led away in pleasant views and contemplations of them . And my my mind was greatly engaged to spend my ...
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... glorious majefty and grace of God , that I know not how to exprefs . - I feemed to fee them both in a sweet conjunction : majefty and meekness joined together : it was a sweet and gentle , and holy majefty ; and also a majestic meek ...
... glorious majefty and grace of God , that I know not how to exprefs . - I feemed to fee them both in a sweet conjunction : majefty and meekness joined together : it was a sweet and gentle , and holy majefty ; and also a majestic meek ...
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... glorious God ; and while I viewed , used to spend my time , as it always feemed · natural to me , to ling or chant forth my meditations ; to speak my thoughts in foliloquies , and speak with a finging voice .. " I felt then a great ...
... glorious God ; and while I viewed , used to spend my time , as it always feemed · natural to me , to ling or chant forth my meditations ; to speak my thoughts in foliloquies , and speak with a finging voice .. " I felt then a great ...
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... glorious things that God would accomplish for his church in the latter days . " I had then , and at other times , the greatest delight in the holy fcriptures , of any book whatfoever . Öf- tentimes in reading it , every word feemed to ...
... glorious things that God would accomplish for his church in the latter days . " I had then , and at other times , the greatest delight in the holy fcriptures , of any book whatfoever . Öf- tentimes in reading it , every word feemed to ...
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Page 38 - Once, as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been, to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man, and his wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension.
Page 69 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 224 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 227 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.
Page 113 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 215 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Page 352 - And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 27 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever, Amen. As I read the words, there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense...
Page 38 - This grace, that appeared so calm and sweet, appeared also great above the heavens. The person of Christ appeared ineffably excellent, with an excellency great enough to swallow up all thought and conception, which continued, as near as I can judge, about an hour, which kept me, the greater part of the time, in a flood of tears and weeping aloud.
Page 327 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.