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Page 108
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his household ...
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his household ...
Page 167
... lived near enough to be well informed , relates in Spence's memorials , that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends . But that indigence , and its concomi- tants , sorrow and ...
... lived near enough to be well informed , relates in Spence's memorials , that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends . But that indigence , and its concomi- tants , sorrow and ...
Page 190
... lived lon enough to observe that this falling church has got a tri of rising again . ' He took notice to his friends of the King's conduc and said , that ' he would be left like a whale upon th strand . ' Whether he was privy to any of ...
... lived lon enough to observe that this falling church has got a tri of rising again . ' He took notice to his friends of the King's conduc and said , that ' he would be left like a whale upon th strand . ' Whether he was privy to any of ...
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