The Life of Rev. Henry MartynAmerican Sunday school union, 1832 - 242 pages |
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... become dissolute beyond recovery . He returned to his school , and remained under the same teacher , until he entered St. John's college , in the university of Cambridge , in October , 1797 . Ambitious to be distinguished , and anxious ...
... become dissolute beyond recovery . He returned to his school , and remained under the same teacher , until he entered St. John's college , in the university of Cambridge , in October , 1797 . Ambitious to be distinguished , and anxious ...
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... becomes acquainted with his true character . Such was the apparent commencement of the influence of the Holy Spirit on Martyn's heart ; and although on his return to Cambridge , those sacred impressions were in danger of being destroyed ...
... becomes acquainted with his true character . Such was the apparent commencement of the influence of the Holy Spirit on Martyn's heart ; and although on his return to Cambridge , those sacred impressions were in danger of being destroyed ...
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... become a foreign missionary , and offered himself as such to the English society , now called " The Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East . " It is too often the case , that in perusing the life of an eminent disciple of ...
... become a foreign missionary , and offered himself as such to the English society , now called " The Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East . " It is too often the case , that in perusing the life of an eminent disciple of ...
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... becoming dim and transient . I could live for ever in prayer , if I could always speak to God . I sought to pause , and to consider what I wanted , and to look up with fear and faith , and I found the benefit ; for my soul was soon com ...
... becoming dim and transient . I could live for ever in prayer , if I could always speak to God . I sought to pause , and to consider what I wanted , and to look up with fear and faith , and I found the benefit ; for my soul was soon com ...
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... become slower than it had been : yet I can truly say , that in the course of this time , every successive year , every successive week , has been happier than the former . From many dangerous snares hath the Lord preserved me : in spite ...
... become slower than it had been : yet I can truly say , that in the course of this time , every successive year , every successive week , has been happier than the former . From many dangerous snares hath the Lord preserved me : in spite ...
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The Life of REV. Henry Martyn John Hall,John Sargent,American Sunday School Union Publisher No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 107 - And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
Page 94 - THERE is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins, And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains.
Page 105 - O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest ; ' at other times, in my sorrow about the creature, I have no wish left for my heavenly rest.
Page 94 - Dear dying Lamb ! Thy precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed church of God Be saved, to sin no more.
Page 50 - Why sayest thou. O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 240 - The God of Abraham praise, At whose supreme command From earth I rise, and seek the joys At his right hand : I all on earth forsake, Its wisdom, fame, and power ; And him my only portion make, My shield and tower.
Page 77 - I will gather all nations and tongues ; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Page 29 - I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich ; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Page 60 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 42 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...