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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... consider both the condition of the woman , and the counsel of Christ with respect to it . 1. Consider the condition of this wo- man , which appears to be very dolorous and distressed . Her groans and tears moved and melted the very ...
... consider both the condition of the woman , and the counsel of Christ with respect to it . 1. Consider the condition of this wo- man , which appears to be very dolorous and distressed . Her groans and tears moved and melted the very ...
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... consider the occasion , the motive , and the counsel itself . Consider the occasion of it ; and that was his seeing her . This meeting at the gate of the city , how accidental and oc- casional soever it seems , was yet without doubt ...
... consider the occasion , the motive , and the counsel itself . Consider the occasion of it ; and that was his seeing her . This meeting at the gate of the city , how accidental and oc- casional soever it seems , was yet without doubt ...
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... Consider the counsel itself , -- " Weep not ; " herein fulfilling the office of com- forter to them that mourn , whereunto he was anointed , Isaiah lxi . 1 , 2 , 3. Yet the words are not an absolute prohibition of tears and sorrow . He ...
... Consider the counsel itself , -- " Weep not ; " herein fulfilling the office of com- forter to them that mourn , whereunto he was anointed , Isaiah lxi . 1 , 2 , 3. Yet the words are not an absolute prohibition of tears and sorrow . He ...
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... consider , what support or comfort can a particular and present resurrection from the dead give us , more than that it is , and as it is , a specimen or pledge of the general resurrection ? It is not the returning of the soul to its ...
... consider , what support or comfort can a particular and present resurrection from the dead give us , more than that it is , and as it is , a specimen or pledge of the general resurrection ? It is not the returning of the soul to its ...
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... consider ; this is not right . Surely the rod works not kindly now . What , did thy love to God expire when thy friend expired ? Is thy heart as cold in duty as his body is in the grave ? Has natural death seized him , and spiritual ...
... consider ; this is not right . Surely the rod works not kindly now . What , did thy love to God expire when thy friend expired ? Is thy heart as cold in duty as his body is in the grave ? Has natural death seized him , and spiritual ...
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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.