The Christian's defence against the fears of death, tr. by M. D'Assigny. [Preceded by] A true relation of the apparition of one mrs Veal [by D. Defoe |
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... delights to trample upon their moft ravishing Beauties . It ftops its Ears to the Requests of trembling old - Age , and cafts to the Ground the grey Heads as fo many withered Oaks . At a Battle , when Princes and Generals of the Ene ...
... delights to trample upon their moft ravishing Beauties . It ftops its Ears to the Requests of trembling old - Age , and cafts to the Ground the grey Heads as fo many withered Oaks . At a Battle , when Princes and Generals of the Ene ...
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... Delight to fuch as are racked in the Executioner's Hands , or tyed to four Horses that are ready to tear him to Pieces . Thus it is with the most eloquent and florid Discourse ; it can bring no Com- fort to a Soul that is departing ...
... Delight to fuch as are racked in the Executioner's Hands , or tyed to four Horses that are ready to tear him to Pieces . Thus it is with the most eloquent and florid Discourse ; it can bring no Com- fort to a Soul that is departing ...
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... Delights , as the Spouse in the Canticles . What , faith the Worldling , muft I leave my fumptuous Pa- laces , my pleasant Dwellings , and my delightful Gar- dens ? Muft I relinquifh all this rich Tapestry , thefe precious Moveables ...
... Delights , as the Spouse in the Canticles . What , faith the Worldling , muft I leave my fumptuous Pa- laces , my pleasant Dwellings , and my delightful Gar- dens ? Muft I relinquifh all this rich Tapestry , thefe precious Moveables ...
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... Delights . They treated it as if their Design had been to invite it to their most delicious Feaft , that they might ... Delight . For as Alexander the Great understood that he was a Mortal , by the Blood that run out of his Wounds : Thus ...
... Delights . They treated it as if their Design had been to invite it to their most delicious Feaft , that they might ... Delight . For as Alexander the Great understood that he was a Mortal , by the Blood that run out of his Wounds : Thus ...
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... Delights , as from the Bed of Sorrow , where we figh and groan . There is no fecret Retreat where me may find a Refuge ; it hath no more Re- gard of the Temples dedicated to God's Service , than of the common Houfes . All the Riches of ...
... Delights , as from the Bed of Sorrow , where we figh and groan . There is no fecret Retreat where me may find a Refuge ; it hath no more Re- gard of the Temples dedicated to God's Service , than of the common Houfes . All the Riches of ...
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Page 222 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Page 183 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 226 - Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Page 138 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 251 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; Thy walls are continually before me.
Page 238 - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Page 256 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Page 266 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort ; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Page 83 - Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God'.
Page 235 - For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.