An Account of the Experience of Hester Ann Rogers: And Her Funeral Sermon |
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... hope you will be a good child , and then you will be happy . " Then laying his hand on my head , he lifted his eyes to heaven , and with a solemnity I shall never forget , said , " Unto God's gracious mercy and protection I commit thee ...
... hope you will be a good child , and then you will be happy . " Then laying his hand on my head , he lifted his eyes to heaven , and with a solemnity I shall never forget , said , " Unto God's gracious mercy and protection I commit thee ...
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... hope ; for it seemed the justice of God must unavoidably sentence me to endless misery , which I felt to be my real desert ; and was bewailing my own folly with bitter cries and lamentations . Their employ I thought was the same ; each ...
... hope ; for it seemed the justice of God must unavoidably sentence me to endless misery , which I felt to be my real desert ; and was bewailing my own folly with bitter cries and lamentations . Their employ I thought was the same ; each ...
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... hope I should have for my own soul on these terms . I therefore made a little day book , in which I put down every good and bad action with great sincerity ; at the same time praying to God to show me if I was in the way to heaven or ...
... hope I should have for my own soul on these terms . I therefore made a little day book , in which I put down every good and bad action with great sincerity ; at the same time praying to God to show me if I was in the way to heaven or ...
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... hope , the Lord suddenly removed his burden , and spoke pardon and peace to his soul , so that he felt his sins were all forgiven . Lord , said I , if this is truth , ( and I cannot disbe- lieve it , ) never let me rest till I obtain a ...
... hope , the Lord suddenly removed his burden , and spoke pardon and peace to his soul , so that he felt his sins were all forgiven . Lord , said I , if this is truth , ( and I cannot disbe- lieve it , ) never let me rest till I obtain a ...
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... hope , any plea ! I wept aloud , so that all around me were amazed ; nor was I any longer ashamed to own the cause . I went home , ran up stairs , and fell on my knees ; and made a solemn vow to re- nounce and forsake all my sinful ...
... hope , any plea ! I wept aloud , so that all around me were amazed ; nor was I any longer ashamed to own the cause . I went home , ran up stairs , and fell on my knees ; and made a solemn vow to re- nounce and forsake all my sinful ...
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Page 154 - Where is boasting, then ? It is excluded. By what law ? Of works ? Nay, but by the law of faith ; therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law.
Page 153 - Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows ! He was wounded for our transgressions ; He was bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace was upon Him ; And with His stripes we are healed.
Page 72 - I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
Page 154 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 161 - How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.
Page 211 - Praise the Lord, O my soul : and all that is within me praise his holy Name.
Page 183 - I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Page 53 - Far from a world of grief and sin, With God eternally shut in.
Page 18 - They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 90 - And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.