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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... husband to comfort her , as Elkanah did Hannah , in 1 Sam . i . 8 ; " Why weepest thou , and why is thy heart grieved ? Am not I better to thee than A TOKEN FOR MOURNERS . 11 they stand like olive plants about our ...
... husband to comfort her , as Elkanah did Hannah , in 1 Sam . i . 8 ; " Why weepest thou , and why is thy heart grieved ? Am not I better to thee than A TOKEN FOR MOURNERS . 11 they stand like olive plants about our ...
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... husband was dead , as well as her son , both gone , and she only surviving , to lament the loss of those comforts that once she had . Her cala- mities came not single , but one after another , and this reviving and aggravat- ing the ...
... husband was dead , as well as her son , both gone , and she only surviving , to lament the loss of those comforts that once she had . Her cala- mities came not single , but one after another , and this reviving and aggravat- ing the ...
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... husband , a wife , other children ; or if not , you have comfortable accommoda- tions for yourselves , with health to en- joy them ; or if not , yet have you the or- dinances of God , it may be , an interest in Christ and in the ...
... husband , a wife , other children ; or if not , you have comfortable accommoda- tions for yourselves , with health to en- joy them ; or if not , yet have you the or- dinances of God , it may be , an interest in Christ and in the ...
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... husband , a wife , other children yet left ; smite them all ; go , sickness , and remove the health of his body yet left ; go losses , and impoverish his estate yet left ; go , reproach , and blast his reputa- tion , which is yet sweet ...
... husband , a wife , other children yet left ; smite them all ; go , sickness , and remove the health of his body yet left ; go losses , and impoverish his estate yet left ; go , reproach , and blast his reputa- tion , which is yet sweet ...
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... husband , wife , or child is taken , and thou art left . Had thy name been in the commission , thou hadst been now past hope . O the sparing mercy of God , the won- derful long - suffering of God towards thee ! Possibly that poor ...
... husband , wife , or child is taken , and thou art left . Had thy name been in the commission , thou hadst been now past hope . O the sparing mercy of God , the won- derful long - suffering of God towards thee ! Possibly that poor ...
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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.