The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 18

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Page 313 - God may not depart. 3 Lead us to holiness — the road That we must take to dwell with God; Lead us to Christ the living way, Nor let us from his precepts stray.
Page 292 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 400 - Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Page 77 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 383 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Page 281 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ...
Page 209 - GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. "We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine Requireth none to grow ; Nor doth it need the lotus-flower To make the river flow.
Page 282 - I long to behold thee, in glory at home. 3 I sigh from this body of sin to be free, Which hinders my joy and communion with thee ; Though now my temptations like billows may foam, All, all will be peace, when I'm with thee at home.
Page 77 - Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Page 341 - MUST friends and kindred drop and die ? Must helpers be withdrawn ? While sorrow, with a weeping eye, Counts up our comforts gone ? 2 Be thou our comfort, mighty God, Our helper and our friend ; Nor leave us, in this dangerous road, Till all our trials end. 3 O may our feet pursue the way Our pious fathers led ! While love and holy zeal obey The counsels of the dead.

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