The Life of Darcy, Lady Maxwell, of Pollock, Late of Edinburgh: Compiled from Her Voluminous Diary and Correspondence, and from Other Authentic DocumentsT. Blanshard, 1821 |
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Page 47
... fering , gentleness , and contentment , -difficulties are found to be duties , and duties are relished with delight ; -crosses form crowns , and tem poral loss conduces to spiritual and eternal gain . Thus DARCY , LADY MAXWELL . 47.
... fering , gentleness , and contentment , -difficulties are found to be duties , and duties are relished with delight ; -crosses form crowns , and tem poral loss conduces to spiritual and eternal gain . Thus DARCY , LADY MAXWELL . 47.
Page 113
... delightful consciousness of my union with Jesus . How far superior is this heart - felt knowledge of God , to the ab- stracted and metaphysical reasoning of the schools . While our knowledge of Divine things rests only on this latter ...
... delightful consciousness of my union with Jesus . How far superior is this heart - felt knowledge of God , to the ab- stracted and metaphysical reasoning of the schools . While our knowledge of Divine things rests only on this latter ...
Page 126
... delightfully embraced every oppor tunity of this kind , not only at one but at dif- ferent churches , and also at the chapel where her attendance was constant ; and generally , if not invariably , she experienced them times of ...
... delightfully embraced every oppor tunity of this kind , not only at one but at dif- ferent churches , and also at the chapel where her attendance was constant ; and generally , if not invariably , she experienced them times of ...
Page 130
... delightful communion with himself . My enjoyments have been very great to - day .. I think I have had a measure of that perfect love that casteth out all slavish fear . Lord , whence is all this goodness to me ! O for a grateful heart ...
... delightful communion with himself . My enjoyments have been very great to - day .. I think I have had a measure of that perfect love that casteth out all slavish fear . Lord , whence is all this goodness to me ! O for a grateful heart ...
Page 131
... delightful intercourse with God before I retired , as to make me regret the neces- sity of interrupting it by taking necessary rest . On going to bed , so many comfortable scriptures poured in upon my mind , that I fell asleep filled ...
... delightful intercourse with God before I retired , as to make me regret the neces- sity of interrupting it by taking necessary rest . On going to bed , so many comfortable scriptures poured in upon my mind , that I fell asleep filled ...
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Page 290 - The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble ; And he knoweth them that trust in him.
Page 271 - Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Page 2 - For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
Page 25 - What shall we say then ? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith ; but Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.
Page 287 - Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power...
Page 244 - The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Page 38 - Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Page 12 - Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night ; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light ; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
Page 194 - And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 234 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.