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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... thee that it was a sorrowful state indeed , in which Christ met this tender mother . And , which is yet more , he was not only a son , but an only son ; so you find in ver . 12 ; " He was the only son of his mother ; " one in whom all ...
... thee that it was a sorrowful state indeed , in which Christ met this tender mother . And , which is yet more , he was not only a son , but an only son ; so you find in ver . 12 ; " He was the only son of his mother ; " one in whom all ...
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... thee with sackcloth , and wallow thyself in ashes . Make thee mourning as for an only son , most bitter lamentation , " Jer . vi . 26. Yea , so deep and penetrating is this grief , that the Holy Ghost borrows it to express the deepest ...
... thee with sackcloth , and wallow thyself in ashes . Make thee mourning as for an only son , most bitter lamentation , " Jer . vi . 26. Yea , so deep and penetrating is this grief , that the Holy Ghost borrows it to express the deepest ...
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John Flavel. heart grieved ? Am not I better to thee than ten sons ? " This would have been a great relief ; but her husband was dead , as well as her son , both gone , and she only surviving , to lament the loss of those comforts that ...
John Flavel. heart grieved ? Am not I better to thee than ten sons ? " This would have been a great relief ; but her husband was dead , as well as her son , both gone , and she only surviving , to lament the loss of those comforts that ...
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... thee grieve beyond what is meet . That thou shouldest not grieve at all , I dare not require thee ; tears may be ex- cused , if they do not exceed . Let thine eyes , therefore , be neither wholly dry , nor let them overflow . Weep thou ...
... thee grieve beyond what is meet . That thou shouldest not grieve at all , I dare not require thee ; tears may be ex- cused , if they do not exceed . Let thine eyes , therefore , be neither wholly dry , nor let them overflow . Weep thou ...
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... thee ? Or , if you did not foresee it , it is now your duty to search and examine yourselves . So the Church , in her affliction , resolved , " Let us search and try our ways . " When God is smiting , we should be searching . Surely our ...
... thee ? Or , if you did not foresee it , it is now your duty to search and examine yourselves . So the Church , in her affliction , resolved , " Let us search and try our ways . " When God is smiting , we should be searching . Surely our ...
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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.