Solitude Sweetened: Or Miscellaneous Mediatations on Various Religious Subjects Written in Distant Parts of the World |
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... whole God , and a full glory ; a consummate happiness , and a continual enjoyment ? Well then , what though the hours of time steal from me unknown ? I rejoice that I shall not lose one moment through weariness , while eternity rolls ...
... whole God , and a full glory ; a consummate happiness , and a continual enjoyment ? Well then , what though the hours of time steal from me unknown ? I rejoice that I shall not lose one moment through weariness , while eternity rolls ...
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... whole , say , if thou darest , if ever God dealt ill with thee ! No ; every provi- dence will prove the contrary ; every mercy will aver ; yea , every change of life , every crook of lot will seal it . But , seeing this is thy work , O ...
... whole , say , if thou darest , if ever God dealt ill with thee ! No ; every provi- dence will prove the contrary ; every mercy will aver ; yea , every change of life , every crook of lot will seal it . But , seeing this is thy work , O ...
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... whole world , which yet few of the world lay to heart ; and that is , that all men are mortal . If I ask at the practice of the universality of mankind , it denies it . If I return and ask at my own breast ; why , I confess I must meet ...
... whole world , which yet few of the world lay to heart ; and that is , that all men are mortal . If I ask at the practice of the universality of mankind , it denies it . If I return and ask at my own breast ; why , I confess I must meet ...
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... whole soul appear ! Here , the child of grace , who was glad of a seat on the threshold of the temple , and could with joy have been but a door - keeper in the house of God , shall not only be a pillar in the temple above , but shall be ...
... whole soul appear ! Here , the child of grace , who was glad of a seat on the threshold of the temple , and could with joy have been but a door - keeper in the house of God , shall not only be a pillar in the temple above , but shall be ...
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... whole nations struck blind , and not one left to lead another , but all perishing in this de- plorable situation , how would we feel in the tenderest manner for them ! Now , are there not whole nations that sit in the region and shadow ...
... whole nations struck blind , and not one left to lead another , but all perishing in this de- plorable situation , how would we feel in the tenderest manner for them ! Now , are there not whole nations that sit in the region and shadow ...
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Page 269 - But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel...
Page 111 - ... eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 295 - Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Page 375 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 206 - If a man love me, my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Page 219 - The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
Page 14 - How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Page 304 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.
Page 17 - He who spared not his own Son but delivered him up to the death for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things...
Page 65 - a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, and as rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land,