A Token for Mourners, Or The Advice of Christ to a Distressed Mother, Bewailing the Death of Her Dear and Only SonT. Nelson, 1841 |
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... Jesus Christ ; and that the stream of your affection to him may be so much the stronger , as there are now fewer channels for it to be divided into . 5. That you may be strengthened with all might in the inner man to all patience , that ...
... Jesus Christ ; and that the stream of your affection to him may be so much the stronger , as there are now fewer channels for it to be divided into . 5. That you may be strengthened with all might in the inner man to all patience , that ...
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... Jesus Christ , in the day of his troubles , poured out his soul with strong cries and many tears , saying , " Father , if thou be willing , let this cup pass from me , " Luke xxii . 42. Oppress- ed nature desires ease , and even our re ...
... Jesus Christ , in the day of his troubles , poured out his soul with strong cries and many tears , saying , " Father , if thou be willing , let this cup pass from me , " Luke xxii . 42. Oppress- ed nature desires ease , and even our re ...
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... Jesus Christ's ? Few men have any great cares or designs ly- ing beyond the bounds of their own pri- vate interests . And what we say of cares is as true of sorrows . If a child die , we are ready to die too , but public calamities ...
... Jesus Christ's ? Few men have any great cares or designs ly- ing beyond the bounds of their own pri- vate interests . And what we say of cares is as true of sorrows . If a child die , we are ready to die too , but public calamities ...
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... Jesus , here am I , a poor guilty sinner , deeply laden with sin . Fear and trouble on one hand , and there is a just God , a severe law , and everlasting burn- ings , on the other hand ; but blessed be God , oh ! blessed be God , for Jesus ...
... Jesus , here am I , a poor guilty sinner , deeply laden with sin . Fear and trouble on one hand , and there is a just God , a severe law , and everlasting burn- ings , on the other hand ; but blessed be God , oh ! blessed be God , for Jesus ...
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... Jesus , thy poor creature comes to thee upon these encouragements . I come , but O , it is with many staggerings , with many doubts and fears of the issue ; yet I am willing to come and make a cove- nant with thee this day . I take thee ...
... Jesus , thy poor creature comes to thee upon these encouragements . I come , but O , it is with many staggerings , with many doubts and fears of the issue ; yet I am willing to come and make a cove- nant with thee this day . I take thee ...
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Page 79 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 50 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Page 77 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 12 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Page 58 - And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Page 92 - While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 60 - The fear of the LORD prolongeth days; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Page 18 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 78 - Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
Page 103 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.