Short Discourses to be Read in Families, Volume 2Oliver D. Cooke; Peter B. Gleason & Company printers, 1812 |
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... feels a holy indifference , a blessed re- signation to the will of providence , and committing all his concerns to his Heavenly Father , he learns in whatsoever state he is , therewith to be content : accor- ding to the language of the ...
... feels a holy indifference , a blessed re- signation to the will of providence , and committing all his concerns to his Heavenly Father , he learns in whatsoever state he is , therewith to be content : accor- ding to the language of the ...
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... feel- ings it produced . You sometimes passed silent sab- baths , and mourned the loss of sanctuary privileges . You always spent imperfect ones ; you could not do the things that you would : and soon grew weary in the service of God ...
... feel- ings it produced . You sometimes passed silent sab- baths , and mourned the loss of sanctuary privileges . You always spent imperfect ones ; you could not do the things that you would : and soon grew weary in the service of God ...
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... feeling , which also immediately seizes the mind , and works very pow- erfully - and this is solicitude - care to ... feel , you would say that the loss of this rest was the least of all your fears . It never disturbs your repose by ...
... feeling , which also immediately seizes the mind , and works very pow- erfully - and this is solicitude - care to ... feel , you would say that the loss of this rest was the least of all your fears . It never disturbs your repose by ...
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... feel whether we have rendered accord- ing to the benefit done us . How much of our insensi- bility and ingratitude springs from inattention , and a bad memory : and how well may it be said of thousands as it was of Israel , " of the ...
... feel whether we have rendered accord- ing to the benefit done us . How much of our insensi- bility and ingratitude springs from inattention , and a bad memory : and how well may it be said of thousands as it was of Israel , " of the ...
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William Jay. haps we feel more painfully than the ungrateful recep- tion of the favors we bestow : and a very few instances of unthankfulness are sufficient to induce us to discon- tinue our benefits . What then does God think of us ...
William Jay. haps we feel more painfully than the ungrateful recep- tion of the favors we bestow : and a very few instances of unthankfulness are sufficient to induce us to discon- tinue our benefits . What then does God think of us ...
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Page 3 - Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Page 151 - Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 266 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Page 255 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 171 - 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 203 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty : Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Page 215 - And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing ; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee ; but if not, it shall not be so.
Page 246 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 183 - And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Page 221 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.