Evening meditations; or, A series of reflections on various passages of holy Scripture and Scriptural poetry, by the author of The retrospect &c |
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... seasons of pain , depression , and illness , when it was at once a duty and privilege to entreat a sanctified use of these afflictions , and to divert the mind as much as possible from them , and those feuds and agitation that ...
... seasons of pain , depression , and illness , when it was at once a duty and privilege to entreat a sanctified use of these afflictions , and to divert the mind as much as possible from them , and those feuds and agitation that ...
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... season , but for ever . It is this that fills death with its terrors , and , like the sting of a serpent , makes it so fearfully hurtful as it is ; were it not for this , the merely dying would be of little consequence , considering ...
... season , but for ever . It is this that fills death with its terrors , and , like the sting of a serpent , makes it so fearfully hurtful as it is ; were it not for this , the merely dying would be of little consequence , considering ...
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... seasons it would , like a wayward little child , fain try to go alone , and put aside that hand which is mercifully and graciously held out for its direction and assist- ance . Oh , forgive these sins and follies ; and henceforth let me ...
... seasons it would , like a wayward little child , fain try to go alone , and put aside that hand which is mercifully and graciously held out for its direction and assist- ance . Oh , forgive these sins and follies ; and henceforth let me ...
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... season , but in Christ Jesus , and in his salvation for ever . If at death and at judgment I am found in him , what shall I have to fear ? the very waves that destroyed others served to bear up the ark in which Noah rested ; and the ...
... season , but in Christ Jesus , and in his salvation for ever . If at death and at judgment I am found in him , what shall I have to fear ? the very waves that destroyed others served to bear up the ark in which Noah rested ; and the ...
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... seasons of great perplexity - times of doubts and fears , of distress and sickness , and of threatening deaths , wherein the Lord was thy helper and deliverer . many occasions he hath proved better than thy fears - many wherein he hath ...
... seasons of great perplexity - times of doubts and fears , of distress and sickness , and of threatening deaths , wherein the Lord was thy helper and deliverer . many occasions he hath proved better than thy fears - many wherein he hath ...
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Page 199 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 39 - Bent all on pleasure, heedless of its end. But He, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Called for a cloud to darken all their years, And said ' Go spend them in the vale of tears...
Page 277 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 48 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 352 - Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Page 122 - Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field : but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Page 329 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 94 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 234 - Man may trouble and distress me, 'Twill but drive me to thy breast ; Life with trials hard may press me, Heaven will bring me sweeter rest. Oh, 'tis not in grief to harm me, While thy love is left to me ; Oh, 'twere not in joy to charm me, Were that joy unmixed with thee.
Page 2 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying, none were blest.