An Offering of Sympathy to Parents Bereaved of Their Children: And to Others Under Affliction : Being a Collection from Manuscripts and Letters Not Before PublishedFrancis Parkman |
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Page 20 - When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee, When thou walkest through the fire Thou shalt not be burned, Neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour...
Page 128 - From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Page 144 - The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
Page 14 - While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 45 - Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
Page 127 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the LORD : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the LORD.
Page 185 - And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation...
Page 173 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Page 145 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 46 - But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect...