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... Strength to resist Temptations For Watchfulness against Sin On Reading the Scriptures For Meekness • • • 111 112 114 idem 115 • 116 • • · 117 118 119 idem 120 • 121 • 122 idem 123 124 125 For Spiritualized Affections . For Holiness ...
... Strength to resist Temptations For Watchfulness against Sin On Reading the Scriptures For Meekness • • • 111 112 114 idem 115 • 116 • • · 117 118 119 idem 120 • 121 • 122 idem 123 124 125 For Spiritualized Affections . For Holiness ...
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... strength and tower The golden palace of my God The Lord , how tender is his love There is an hour of peaceful rest Thou didst , O Mighty God , exist Through sorrows ' night , and danger's path Through the skies when the thunder is hurl ...
... strength and tower The golden palace of my God The Lord , how tender is his love There is an hour of peaceful rest Thou didst , O Mighty God , exist Through sorrows ' night , and danger's path Through the skies when the thunder is hurl ...
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... strength than our own . Power sustain us not we fall ; if He direct us not we wander . His guidance is not only perfect freedom , but perfect safety . Our greatest danger begins from the mo- ment we imagine we are able to go alone . He ...
... strength than our own . Power sustain us not we fall ; if He direct us not we wander . His guidance is not only perfect freedom , but perfect safety . Our greatest danger begins from the mo- ment we imagine we are able to go alone . He ...
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... strength , any thing that is evil . Prayer is right in itself as the most powerful means of resisting sin and ad- vancing in holiness . It is above all right , as every thing is which has the authority of Scripture , the command of God ...
... strength , any thing that is evil . Prayer is right in itself as the most powerful means of resisting sin and ad- vancing in holiness . It is above all right , as every thing is which has the authority of Scripture , the command of God ...
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... strength , and to seek that power from God which we vainly look for in ourselves : we do not tell a sick friend of his danger in order to grieve and terrify him , but to induce him to apply to his physician , and to have recourse to his ...
... strength , and to seek that power from God which we vainly look for in ourselves : we do not tell a sick friend of his danger in order to grieve and terrify him , but to induce him to apply to his physician , and to have recourse to his ...
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Page 222 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 49 - Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with thy free Spirit.
Page 74 - Verily verily I say unto you ; Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Page 34 - He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Page 219 - Return) O holy Dove ! return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate the sins that made Thee mourn. And drove Thee from my breast.
Page 138 - Rejoice the soul of thy servant : for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Page 218 - Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
Page 28 - Thou, by whom we come to God, The life, the truth, the way, The path of prayer thyself hast trod Lord, teach us how to pray.
Page 230 - I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain : He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.
Page 223 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!