The Village Blacksmith; Or Piety and Usefulness Exemplified. In a Memoir of the Life of Samuel Hick, Late of Micklefield, YorkshireHamilton, Adams, and Company, 1832 - 12 pages |
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... once drawn to the subject of religion , by the peculiarities of Methodism , it was soon re - awakened by the return of the preachers , whose visits , from the comparatively small number of labourers em- ployed , were more 4 THE VILLAGE ...
... once drawn to the subject of religion , by the peculiarities of Methodism , it was soon re - awakened by the return of the preachers , whose visits , from the comparatively small number of labourers em- ployed , were more 4 THE VILLAGE ...
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... once , in the city of York , on his early call to the ministry , he said , " I seem to have been something like a partridge : I ran away with the shell on my head . " small importance ; for as he was proceeding with the 10 THE VILLAGE ...
... once , in the city of York , on his early call to the ministry , he said , " I seem to have been something like a partridge : I ran away with the shell on my head . " small importance ; for as he was proceeding with the 10 THE VILLAGE ...
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... once to soothe our sorrows , and approving of our continuance in a state of moral defilement - would be to doubt the veracity of the Holy Ghost , in his statements of the sudden illumination of Saul , the sudden conviction of the ...
... once to soothe our sorrows , and approving of our continuance in a state of moral defilement - would be to doubt the veracity of the Holy Ghost , in his statements of the sudden illumination of Saul , the sudden conviction of the ...
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... once entitle the work to the general appella- tion of sudden conversion : for the poet had only to stoop to drink - to rise , and to rise too a renovated man . This bears such a striking ana- logy to the case of the sin - sick Village ...
... once entitle the work to the general appella- tion of sudden conversion : for the poet had only to stoop to drink - to rise , and to rise too a renovated man . This bears such a striking ana- logy to the case of the sin - sick Village ...
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... once a fortnight on the Lord's day , by the Rev. T. of Monkfryson , a village about five miles distant . Mr. T. had ten shillings and six- pence per day allowed him for his labour ; but neither exhibiting the morality of the gospel in ...
... once a fortnight on the Lord's day , by the Rev. T. of Monkfryson , a village about five miles distant . Mr. T. had ten shillings and six- pence per day allowed him for his labour ; but neither exhibiting the morality of the gospel in ...
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Page 282 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 30 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 26 - The Father hears Him pray, His dear Anointed One ; He cannot turn away The presence of His Son : His Spirit answers to the blood, And tells me I am born of God. 5 My God is reconciled, His pardoning voice I hear, He owns me for His child, I can no longer fear ; With confidence I now draw nigh, And, Father, Abba, Father, cry ! 599 (212) LMC WESLEY.
Page 264 - WHAT are these arrayed in white, Brighter than the noon-day sun ? Foremost of the sons of light, Nearest the eternal throne ? These are they that bore the cross, Nobly for their Master stood ; Sufferers in his righteous cause, Followers of the dying God.
Page 50 - God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page xxi - God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are : that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 25 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: so that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Page 156 - My house shall be called of all nations " a house of prayer? but ye have made it a den
Page 266 - I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, And when my voice is lost in death Praise shall employ my noblest powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life and thought and being last Or immortality endures.