Letters to the youngPresbyterian Board of Publications, 1828 - 241 páginas |
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... motive to read with increased interest and attention , you will discover beauties for yourself , and in that discovery find a rich re- ward . Do not suppose I wish to chill the ardent admiration which all , but especially young minds ...
... motive to read with increased interest and attention , you will discover beauties for yourself , and in that discovery find a rich re- ward . Do not suppose I wish to chill the ardent admiration which all , but especially young minds ...
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... intended to exercise over cur motives just that guiding , quickening , con- trolling influence , which the mind exercises over the body . True religion is cheerful . Whilst its highest joy is derived from the contemplation of LETTER V. ...
... intended to exercise over cur motives just that guiding , quickening , con- trolling influence , which the mind exercises over the body . True religion is cheerful . Whilst its highest joy is derived from the contemplation of LETTER V. ...
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... which may not , which ought not , to be connected with it by the motive . Herein consists one chief comfort of this principle , -it affords a new stimulus to exertion - it supplies a suffi- cient 64 LETTERS TO THE YOUNG .
... which may not , which ought not , to be connected with it by the motive . Herein consists one chief comfort of this principle , -it affords a new stimulus to exertion - it supplies a suffi- cient 64 LETTERS TO THE YOUNG .
Página 65
... motive ; and that motive will be a hearty , honest , constant desire to glorify and serve God , and to benefit his fellow- creatures for the sake of God ; a perpetual reference to the declared will of God , as a standard of duty ; a ...
... motive ; and that motive will be a hearty , honest , constant desire to glorify and serve God , and to benefit his fellow- creatures for the sake of God ; a perpetual reference to the declared will of God , as a standard of duty ; a ...
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... motive , so will it be his con- solation . General as this statement may be , the argument might be drawn out and applied to points of conduct apparently the most remote from its influence . It by no means follows , that a person thus ...
... motive , so will it be his con- solation . General as this statement may be , the argument might be drawn out and applied to points of conduct apparently the most remote from its influence . It by no means follows , that a person thus ...
Términos y frases comunes
Absalom Ahab allegory beauty behold bible blessing character Christ Christian comfort David dear dearest death declension delight desire divine divine grace duty earth earthly enjoyment eternity everlasting evil faith fancy Father favour fear feel fruit fulness give glorious glory gospel grace Habakkuk happiness hath heart heaven holy Holy Spirit honour hope human idolatry imagination influence intel intellectual Isaiah Israel Jesus Jews king Lamb of God less LETTER light living look Lord ment merely mind motive mournful Naboth nature ness never Old Testament ourselves peace perfect person pleasure poetry possess pray prayer principle promised prophet Psalm racters regard religion salvation satisfied Saviour scriptures seek Sir John Moore sorrow soul spirit strength strive taste thee thine things thou thoughts tion true truth uncon unto vanity verse walk Washington Irving whilst wilderness words
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Página 115 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Página 238 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Página 239 - And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day : And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Página 15 - And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.
Página 51 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
Página 30 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Página 100 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Página 22 - But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Página 23 - Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel ? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Página 187 - Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.