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... , Queen of Scots , before her ill - advised flight into England . " I think , " he proceeds , " I could trace every building between my school and my home , and B recount each circumstance of social sport , or puerile adventure MEMOIRS ...
... , Queen of Scots , before her ill - advised flight into England . " I think , " he proceeds , " I could trace every building between my school and my home , and B recount each circumstance of social sport , or puerile adventure MEMOIRS ...
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Philip Melvill. recount each circumstance of social sport , or puerile adventure , which passed between my school- fellows and myself , within the well - known dis- tance . Thinking of thee , my native town , how many other thoughts rush ...
Philip Melvill. recount each circumstance of social sport , or puerile adventure , which passed between my school- fellows and myself , within the well - known dis- tance . Thinking of thee , my native town , how many other thoughts rush ...
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... circumstances , in some who are present it will ex- cite wonder , in others a shrinking from the dis- course and a visible disgust , with a hearty wish that the visitation were at an end , and that it may never be repeated . Thus ...
... circumstances , in some who are present it will ex- cite wonder , in others a shrinking from the dis- course and a visible disgust , with a hearty wish that the visitation were at an end , and that it may never be repeated . Thus ...
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... circumstances of life and death are in the hands of the Almighty , and are subject to his sovereign , though secret - working , power . To at- tribute such signal deliverances as these to the necessary operation of second causes , suits ...
... circumstances of life and death are in the hands of the Almighty , and are subject to his sovereign , though secret - working , power . To at- tribute such signal deliverances as these to the necessary operation of second causes , suits ...
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... circumstances of their lives seem to have been recorded for this very purpose among others , that the people of God might be strengthened in their faith and obedience , under that darker dis- pensation , by the belief of this important ...
... circumstances of their lives seem to have been recorded for this very purpose among others , that the people of God might be strengthened in their faith and obedience , under that darker dis- pensation , by the belief of this important ...
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Page 250 - There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Page 209 - Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: 6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 127 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 138 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 135 - For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Page 240 - Yes, Thou art precious to my soul, My transport and my trust ; Jewels to Thee are gaudy toys, And gold is sordid dust. 3...
Page 93 - The eternal God is thy refuge, And underneath are the everlasting arms : And he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; And shall say, Destroy them.
Page 125 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee : because he trusteth in Thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever : for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength...
Page 134 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the -waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 128 - If his children forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments, if they break My statutes, and keep not My commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail.