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... sins . Their closet was the wide world . Its roof was the arch of heaven . Its music was the ceaseless roll of the ... sin and thus , day after day for several succes- sive weeks , they continued the struggle till they obtained mercy and ...
... sins . Their closet was the wide world . Its roof was the arch of heaven . Its music was the ceaseless roll of the ... sin and thus , day after day for several succes- sive weeks , they continued the struggle till they obtained mercy and ...
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... sins were forgiven . Here their lips first broke out in songs of praise to Him who had washed them in his own blood . The flame that burned in their youthful bosoms could no longer be concealed . A pious mother wept for joy when a loved ...
... sins were forgiven . Here their lips first broke out in songs of praise to Him who had washed them in his own blood . The flame that burned in their youthful bosoms could no longer be concealed . A pious mother wept for joy when a loved ...
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... sins ; she revealed his danger while exposed to the wrath of God ; she presented the plan of salvation by Jesus Christ , and besought him to repent and believe . And when she had told him all she could tell , Elizabeth would kneel by ...
... sins ; she revealed his danger while exposed to the wrath of God ; she presented the plan of salvation by Jesus Christ , and besought him to repent and believe . And when she had told him all she could tell , Elizabeth would kneel by ...
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... sin- cerity with which he expressed his thoughts ; his quiet resignation to the divine will ; his peace of mind that followed a season of deep and bitter anguish on account of sin ; all com- bined to make me believe that it was well ...
... sin- cerity with which he expressed his thoughts ; his quiet resignation to the divine will ; his peace of mind that followed a season of deep and bitter anguish on account of sin ; all com- bined to make me believe that it was well ...
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... sin , without putting forth a hand of kindness for their relief ! Such was not the spirit of Christ . Had it been , he would have left us in our ruin , without an offer of the gos- pel or a hope of heaven . Elizabeth persuaded this ...
... sin , without putting forth a hand of kindness for their relief ! Such was not the spirit of Christ . Had it been , he would have left us in our ruin , without an offer of the gos- pel or a hope of heaven . Elizabeth persuaded this ...
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Elizabeth Thornton Or, the Flower and Fruit of Female Piety Samuel Irenaeus Prime No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 208 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 207 - God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good ? Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he hath blessed ; and I cannot reverse it.
Page 159 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our final rest, Living or dying, none were blest. Beyond the flight of time, Beyond this vale of death, There surely is some blessed clime, Where life is not a breath ; Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire...
Page 127 - And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again. And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to-day ? it is neither new moon nor sabbath.
Page 126 - And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life. *^And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. ^And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry Mm to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
Page 97 - They set as sets the morning star, which goes Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides Obscured among the tempests of the sky. But melts away into the light of heaven.
Page 200 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God : All the vain things that charm me most I sacrifice them to his blood. 3. See, from his head, his hands, his feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down : Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown ? 4.
Page 213 - Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Page 206 - 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 181 - Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again ; but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst ; but it shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.