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Page 115
... and pray for them which despitefully use thee , and persecute thee . Do these things , and thy track may be traced with joy ; neglect them , and it will be pondered with sorrow . " SINGING . THOUGH but a poor singer , yet have.
... and pray for them which despitefully use thee , and persecute thee . Do these things , and thy track may be traced with joy ; neglect them , and it will be pondered with sorrow . " SINGING . THOUGH but a poor singer , yet have.
Page 129
... sorrows . Every day has its shine and its shade , and the same remark may be made of all our joys and all our griefs . Our pleasures are not exempt from inconvenience , nor are our pains unaccompanied with advantage . This ought to be ...
... sorrows . Every day has its shine and its shade , and the same remark may be made of all our joys and all our griefs . Our pleasures are not exempt from inconvenience , nor are our pains unaccompanied with advantage . This ought to be ...
Page 142
... sorrows ; but I know too , that every sorrow was weighed out to him , even to the scruple , and that the hand of Him whose name is Love held up the balances . People say that he was poor , and so he was in this world's wealth , and ...
... sorrows ; but I know too , that every sorrow was weighed out to him , even to the scruple , and that the hand of Him whose name is Love held up the balances . People say that he was poor , and so he was in this world's wealth , and ...
Page 190
... sorrow and shame I confess it to be mine . Again and again , like the Brinkburn monks , have I proudly rejoiced in deliverance from faults and infirmities , and again and again has the enemy come in like a flood , overwhelming me with ...
... sorrow and shame I confess it to be mine . Again and again , like the Brinkburn monks , have I proudly rejoiced in deliverance from faults and infirmities , and again and again has the enemy come in like a flood , overwhelming me with ...
Page 198
... sorrow ; to set your affections on a poor perishing world that is passing away , and leave unsought that eternal inheritance which is in heaven . Truly , " the heart is deceit- ful above all things , and desperately wicked : who can ...
... sorrow ; to set your affections on a poor perishing world that is passing away , and leave unsought that eternal inheritance which is in heaven . Truly , " the heart is deceit- ful above all things , and desperately wicked : who can ...
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Page 2 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Page 109 - As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Page 237 - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Page 94 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 58 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 224 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 50 - OsING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 271 - Being, who is infinitely more than an adequate object of all those affections : whom we are commanded to love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.
Page 17 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Page 18 - Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion ; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.