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... Letters on Religious Subjects -Twenty - six under the Title of Omicron , and Fifteen under the Name of Vigil . Vols . 2 and 3. Cardiphonia , or the Utterance of the Heart , in the Course of a real ... LETTER I. REVEREND AND CONTENTS .
... Letters on Religious Subjects -Twenty - six under the Title of Omicron , and Fifteen under the Name of Vigil . Vols . 2 and 3. Cardiphonia , or the Utterance of the Heart , in the Course of a real ... LETTER I. REVEREND AND CONTENTS .
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John Newton. This letter brings my history down to Decem- ber , 1742. I was then lately returned from a voyage , and my father , not intending for the sea again , was thinking how to settle me in the world ... LETTER III . - A FEW days xviii.
John Newton. This letter brings my history down to Decem- ber , 1742. I was then lately returned from a voyage , and my father , not intending for the sea again , was thinking how to settle me in the world ... LETTER III . - A FEW days xviii.
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... LETTER IV . THOUGH I desired your instructions as to the manner and extent of these memoirs , I be- gan to write before I received them , and had almost finished the preceding sheet when your favour of the eleventh came to hand . I ...
... LETTER IV . THOUGH I desired your instructions as to the manner and extent of these memoirs , I be- gan to write before I received them , and had almost finished the preceding sheet when your favour of the eleventh came to hand . I ...
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... LETTER VI . DEAR SIR , THERE is much piety and spirit in the grateful acknowledgment of Jacob , " With my staff I " passed this Jordan , and now I am become two " bands . " They are words which ought to af- fect me with a peculiar ...
... LETTER VI . DEAR SIR , THERE is much piety and spirit in the grateful acknowledgment of Jacob , " With my staff I " passed this Jordan , and now I am become two " bands . " They are words which ought to af- fect me with a peculiar ...
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... 37. On Christian Experience 244 38. On Religion necessary to the Enjoyments of Life 252 39. A Word in Season 258 40. To Professors in Trade 264 41. On the Ministry of Angels 268 LETTERS , & c . LETTER I. On Trust in CONTENTS .
... 37. On Christian Experience 244 38. On Religion necessary to the Enjoyments of Life 252 39. A Word in Season 258 40. To Professors in Trade 264 41. On the Ministry of Angels 268 LETTERS , & c . LETTER I. On Trust in CONTENTS .
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Page 24 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Page 66 - He telleth the number of the stars, and calleth them all by their names.
Page 222 - Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original.
Page 251 - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Page 58 - O that my head were waters, and mine eyes fountains of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people !" It is our duty to be thus affected.
Page 133 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page xviii - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 58 - As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth...
Page 44 - ... and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb...