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... grace I hope to partake of it . Hunger and thirst naturally prompt us to seek , without delay , the means of satis- fying them . What then is the food of the mind ? Wholesome instruction and religious meditation . If then I sincerely ...
... grace I hope to partake of it . Hunger and thirst naturally prompt us to seek , without delay , the means of satis- fying them . What then is the food of the mind ? Wholesome instruction and religious meditation . If then I sincerely ...
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... grace of God to guide us in all our ways , and to support us under all our dis- tresses . Through Him , in Him , we have every thing that can make us happy , unless we wilfully destroy ourselves . Rejoice then , in the Lord , all ye ...
... grace of God to guide us in all our ways , and to support us under all our dis- tresses . Through Him , in Him , we have every thing that can make us happy , unless we wilfully destroy ourselves . Rejoice then , in the Lord , all ye ...
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... grace shall so assist us , that in the end we shall be where he is , to behold his glory and partake his bliss . ELEGY . O form'd for boundless bliss ! Immortal soul ! Why dost thou prompt the melancholy sigh , While evening shades ...
... grace shall so assist us , that in the end we shall be where he is , to behold his glory and partake his bliss . ELEGY . O form'd for boundless bliss ! Immortal soul ! Why dost thou prompt the melancholy sigh , While evening shades ...
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... Lord , it is in my estimation the pearl of inestimable value . I have sought for it as for hidden treasure ; and , under the guidance of Divine grace , I have happily found it . I would not part with it for all that this 36 MEMOIRS OF.
... Lord , it is in my estimation the pearl of inestimable value . I have sought for it as for hidden treasure ; and , under the guidance of Divine grace , I have happily found it . I would not part with it for all that this 36 MEMOIRS OF.
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... grace bring them to a proper sense of their duty ! " She greatly delighted in contemplating the beau- ties of nature , and this she did with a spirit truly devotional . " When my soul , " she says , " is filled with admiration , love ...
... grace bring them to a proper sense of their duty ! " She greatly delighted in contemplating the beau- ties of nature , and this she did with a spirit truly devotional . " When my soul , " she says , " is filled with admiration , love ...
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MEMOIRS OF EMINENTLY PIOUS WOM Thomas 1720-1785 Gibbons,Daniel 1771-1859 Dana No preview available - 2016 |
MEMOIRS OF EMINENTLY PIOUS WOM Thomas 1720-1785 Gibbons,Daniel 1771-1859 Dana No preview available - 2016 |
Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women: Who Were Ornaments to Their Sex ... Daniel Dana,Lecturer in Law Thomas Gibbons No preview available - 2015 |
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Popular passages
Page 404 - Redeemer, w who is able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by Him.
Page 435 - There is a great deal in the world that is delightful and beautiful; there is a great deal in it that is great and engrossing; but it will not last. All that is in the world, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, are but for a little while.
Page 428 - 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.
Page 428 - Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Page 123 - O LORD, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to thy will, And make thy pleasure mine.
Page 123 - Thy favour, all my journey through, Thou art engaged to grant ; What else I want, or think I do, 'Tis better still to want.
Page 438 - He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Page 168 - Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 409 - Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these ? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord ; thou knowest that I love thee.
Page 393 - Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.