The Christian correspondent, letters exemplifying the fruits of holy living and the blessedness of holy dying [ed. by H. Rogers] with a preliminary essay by J. Montgomery, Volume 1 |
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... late years , it has become common to publish , rather voluminously , the private correspondence of persons distinguished in their day and in their circle , though soon to be distinguished no longer amidst the crowds that have preceded ...
... late years , it has become common to publish , rather voluminously , the private correspondence of persons distinguished in their day and in their circle , though soon to be distinguished no longer amidst the crowds that have preceded ...
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... late in the evening , and let me know whether in the day - time I may send for you . Pray Walsh to steal you in , as I hope he will do . If he bring you in , then shall this which follows not need ; but I write this doubting the worst ...
... late in the evening , and let me know whether in the day - time I may send for you . Pray Walsh to steal you in , as I hope he will do . If he bring you in , then shall this which follows not need ; but I write this doubting the worst ...
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... late , are filled with visitants , who love us and wish us well , and are kind to us ; but we cannot do with them what we would . Mrs. Wenlock was to see me yesterday , and brought me a bottle of wine . I bestow all of that kind in ...
... late , are filled with visitants , who love us and wish us well , and are kind to us ; but we cannot do with them what we would . Mrs. Wenlock was to see me yesterday , and brought me a bottle of wine . I bestow all of that kind in ...
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... late dear wife , on the 6th ult . God has removed the desire of my eyes with a stroke ; she who had been the faithful divider of all my cares , and the doubler of all my joys . I desire now to remember , that " affliction does not ...
... late dear wife , on the 6th ult . God has removed the desire of my eyes with a stroke ; she who had been the faithful divider of all my cares , and the doubler of all my joys . I desire now to remember , that " affliction does not ...
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... late relapse , of much further public usefulness . A few exertions , like the last struggles of a dying man , or glimmering flashes of a taper just burning out , is all that can be expected from me . But blessed be God , the taper will ...
... late relapse , of much further public usefulness . A few exertions , like the last struggles of a dying man , or glimmering flashes of a taper just burning out , is all that can be expected from me . But blessed be God , the taper will ...
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Page lii - Which thing I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, 1 gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Page lv - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page liii - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword ? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 44 - Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
Page 115 - Whatever a misjudging world may say, such men as these will " shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever.
Page 80 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page xlvi - Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people; and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
Page li - And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page liii - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 174 - I train up my son in the ways of religion, and teach him what it is to " keep a conscience void of offence towards God, and towards man...