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... lives . This is attempted in the following discour- fes . I am far from pretending to equal the composures of my honoured fathers and brethren , who have addreffed to the Young . But much accuracy , fprightlinefs and ele- gance do not ...
... lives . This is attempted in the following discour- fes . I am far from pretending to equal the composures of my honoured fathers and brethren , who have addreffed to the Young . But much accuracy , fprightlinefs and ele- gance do not ...
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... live , that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem ? DISCOURSE II . The Fruitfulness of aged Chriftians . 26 PSALM XCII . 14. They shall fill bring forth fruit in old age : they shall be fat and flourishing . 52 H DISCOURSE IV ...
... live , that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem ? DISCOURSE II . The Fruitfulness of aged Chriftians . 26 PSALM XCII . 14. They shall fill bring forth fruit in old age : they shall be fat and flourishing . 52 H DISCOURSE IV ...
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... live to be old and infirm . An apocryphal wri- ter faith , " If thou haft gathered nothing in thy youth , how canft thou find any thing in thine age ? It is therefore very criminal in them , especially in fervants , to be wasteful and ...
... live to be old and infirm . An apocryphal wri- ter faith , " If thou haft gathered nothing in thy youth , how canft thou find any thing in thine age ? It is therefore very criminal in them , especially in fervants , to be wasteful and ...
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... lives of all about them uncomfortable . Be not continually finding fault with your youn- gers ; for they are the perfons who must help you few of your cotemporaries can . And it must be a very extraordinary de- gree either of piety or ...
... lives of all about them uncomfortable . Be not continually finding fault with your youn- gers ; for they are the perfons who must help you few of your cotemporaries can . And it must be a very extraordinary de- gree either of piety or ...
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... live- ly and this , furely , is fufficient to balance all your forrows . I conclude this head in the words of a heathen philofopher- " A quiet , honeft old age is to be preferred to other age ; and he that complains of it is unworthy to ...
... live- ly and this , furely , is fufficient to balance all your forrows . I conclude this head in the words of a heathen philofopher- " A quiet , honeft old age is to be preferred to other age ; and he that complains of it is unworthy to ...
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Page 47 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 87 - Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb; 'and even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Page 191 - And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day : the angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads ; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Page 234 - The LORD our GOD be with us, as He was with our fathers : let Him not leave us, nor forsake us : That He may incline our hearts unto Him to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers.
Page 338 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Page 90 - ... that thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him : for he is thy life, and the length of thy days : that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Page 28 - I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Page xii - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 116 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Page 7 - Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...