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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... and trying its way . " Blessed is the man whom God chasteneth , and teacheth out of his law , " Psa . xciv . 12 . 4. I wish that all the love and delight you bestowed upon your little one , may now be iv EPISTLE DEDICATORY .
... and trying its way . " Blessed is the man whom God chasteneth , and teacheth out of his law , " Psa . xciv . 12 . 4. I wish that all the love and delight you bestowed upon your little one , may now be iv EPISTLE DEDICATORY .
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... delights to living relations ; and of both the one and the other we may say , as they say of waters , it is hard to confine them within their bounds . It is therefore grave advice which the Apostle delivers in this case , - " But this I ...
... delights to living relations ; and of both the one and the other we may say , as they say of waters , it is hard to confine them within their bounds . It is therefore grave advice which the Apostle delivers in this case , - " But this I ...
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... delight in God . The end of God in smiting was , to win thy heart nearer to him , by remov- ing that which estranged it . How then dost thou cross the very design of God in this dispensation ! Must God then lose his delight in thy ...
... delight in God . The end of God in smiting was , to win thy heart nearer to him , by remov- ing that which estranged it . How then dost thou cross the very design of God in this dispensation ! Must God then lose his delight in thy ...
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... delight attending it . The Jews , who were with Mary in the house to comfort her , " when they saw that she went out hastily , followed her , saying , She goeth to the grave to weep there ; " as they do , " says Calvin , " who seek to ...
... delight attending it . The Jews , who were with Mary in the house to comfort her , " when they saw that she went out hastily , followed her , saying , She goeth to the grave to weep there ; " as they do , " says Calvin , " who seek to ...
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... delight of your eyes with this stroke ? Bear this stroke with pa- tience and quiet submission ; for how know you , but your trouble might have been greater from the life , than it now is from the death , of your children ? Sad ...
... delight of your eyes with this stroke ? Bear this stroke with pa- tience and quiet submission ; for how know you , but your trouble might have been greater from the life , than it now is from the death , of your children ? Sad ...
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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.