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Page 22
And seeing we cannot fully comprehend how a single pile of grass begins to
vegetate and strike forth its roots in the earth , let us lie low in the valley of
humility , nor dare to arraign the divine decrees , but say , with the father of the
faithful ...
And seeing we cannot fully comprehend how a single pile of grass begins to
vegetate and strike forth its roots in the earth , let us lie low in the valley of
humility , nor dare to arraign the divine decrees , but say , with the father of the
faithful ...
Page 92
... the fallow ground of a sinner ' s heart , breaketh it all up , not the smallest green
bank of self - consequence is left unturned over . * I perceive this man with his
plough turns up large quantities of filthy noxious i weeds , and poisonous roots ...
... the fallow ground of a sinner ' s heart , breaketh it all up , not the smallest green
bank of self - consequence is left unturned over . * I perceive this man with his
plough turns up large quantities of filthy noxious i weeds , and poisonous roots ...
Page 93
In like manner , the law by its ploughing turneth up large quantities of vile weeds
of corruption , and bitter roots of sin , that lay deep hid in the sinner ' s heart
before , which till then he could never properly discover , but now he seeth them
all ...
In like manner , the law by its ploughing turneth up large quantities of vile weeds
of corruption , and bitter roots of sin , that lay deep hid in the sinner ' s heart
before , which till then he could never properly discover , but now he seeth them
all ...
Page 95
But though this barren heath which I now behold , be all ploughed and cross -
tilled , yet if it be not sown and farther cultivated , the weeds and poisonous plants
will again take faster root , and grow more numerous than before , and it will in a
...
But though this barren heath which I now behold , be all ploughed and cross -
tilled , yet if it be not sown and farther cultivated , the weeds and poisonous plants
will again take faster root , and grow more numerous than before , and it will in a
...
Page 96
turned up and loosened , yet if it be not sown with the good seed , and farther
cultivated by the Holy Ghost , those weeds and poisonous bitter roots will take
faster hold of the accursed soil , and spring up more vile and numerous than ever
...
turned up and loosened , yet if it be not sown with the good seed , and farther
cultivated by the Holy Ghost , those weeds and poisonous bitter roots will take
faster hold of the accursed soil , and spring up more vile and numerous than ever
...
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| Title | A Spring Day: Or, Contemplations on Several Occurrences which Naturally Strike the Eye in that Delightful Season |
| Author | James Fisher |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Author, 1819 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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