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... excellent author more immediately under the notice of Christian families . If each of these Memoirs should be the means of dif- fusing but one useful suggestion , the writer feels that he will not have laboured in vain . He therefore ...
... excellent author more immediately under the notice of Christian families . If each of these Memoirs should be the means of dif- fusing but one useful suggestion , the writer feels that he will not have laboured in vain . He therefore ...
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... excellent hands . Two maiden aunts had been blind from their cradles , but the darkness did not extend itself to their minds . From the Bible they had learned in whatsoever state they were therewith to be content ; by the Bible they had ...
... excellent hands . Two maiden aunts had been blind from their cradles , but the darkness did not extend itself to their minds . From the Bible they had learned in whatsoever state they were therewith to be content ; by the Bible they had ...
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... excellent and painful preacher ; a modest man abounding in goodness , and his life and doctrine so agreeable , as those who agree not with him are yet constrained to love and admire him ! " Soon after the delivery of this letter , the ...
... excellent and painful preacher ; a modest man abounding in goodness , and his life and doctrine so agreeable , as those who agree not with him are yet constrained to love and admire him ! " Soon after the delivery of this letter , the ...
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... excellent advice ; it was in substance as follows : 1. Read and study the Scriptures carefully , wherein is the best learning and only infallible truth . They can furnish you with the best materials for your sermons ; the only rules for ...
... excellent advice ; it was in substance as follows : 1. Read and study the Scriptures carefully , wherein is the best learning and only infallible truth . They can furnish you with the best materials for your sermons ; the only rules for ...
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... excellent employment in the church , and entrusted with weighty matters as stewards of our Great Master , Christ the great Bishop . Under him , and by his commission , you are to endeavour to reconcile men to God ; to convert sinners ...
... excellent employment in the church , and entrusted with weighty matters as stewards of our Great Master , Christ the great Bishop . Under him , and by his commission , you are to endeavour to reconcile men to God ; to convert sinners ...
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Página 85 - If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.
Página 221 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 217 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Página 229 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all...
Página 223 - Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Página 229 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had...
Página 128 - And if the state were in this plight, religion was not in much better; to reform which, a certain number of divines were called, neither chosen by any rule or custom ecclesiastical, nor eminent for either piety or knowledge above others left out; only as each member of parliament in his private fancy thought fit, so elected one by one.
Página 246 - Hearken, my dearest brethren ; hath not. God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him ? 6 But you have .dishonoured the poor man.
Página 330 - ... ready to perish for hunger and destitution, yet not asking one penny for relief, which to me appeared a stranger sight than any I had yet beheld.
Página 302 - Their state is safe, and heaven is given to them upon very easy terms; nothing but to be born and die. It will cost you more trouble to get where they are ; and, amongst other things, one of the hardnesses will be, that you must overcome even this just and reasonable grief; and, indeed, though the grief hath but too reasonable a cause, yet it is much more reasonable that you master it.