The ConvertLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826 - 444 pages |
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... former feelings . Life presented no variety - society required a courtship I could never con- descend to pay the little credit I had gained , was not known , or , if known , was disregarded— my income was curtailed : I saw others not ...
... former feelings . Life presented no variety - society required a courtship I could never con- descend to pay the little credit I had gained , was not known , or , if known , was disregarded— my income was curtailed : I saw others not ...
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... former notions were indefensible , and that I had been brought to a sounder per- ception of the truth in this newly settled belief of a God - a Supreme Being whose providence was seen in every operation and contrivance of nature ; the ...
... former notions were indefensible , and that I had been brought to a sounder per- ception of the truth in this newly settled belief of a God - a Supreme Being whose providence was seen in every operation and contrivance of nature ; the ...
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... former times rally around it . I had now recourse to the qualities and powers of the human mind ; which , though they were incapable of explain- ing the nature of God by the outward works of creation , were yet sufficient to lead to ...
... former times rally around it . I had now recourse to the qualities and powers of the human mind ; which , though they were incapable of explain- ing the nature of God by the outward works of creation , were yet sufficient to lead to ...
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... former prejudices , and the seductions of that sophistry , by which I had been misled , I became deeply interested in the pursuit , and at length was instigated to undertake a calm and sober consideration of the evidences for and ...
... former prejudices , and the seductions of that sophistry , by which I had been misled , I became deeply interested in the pursuit , and at length was instigated to undertake a calm and sober consideration of the evidences for and ...
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... former infidelity . Bent upon fixing more deeply the impression wrought upon my sense and feeling , I seized with avidity the sacred book itself , determined to make myself master of its contents : and that I might not , in any way , be ...
... former infidelity . Bent upon fixing more deeply the impression wrought upon my sense and feeling , I seized with avidity the sacred book itself , determined to make myself master of its contents : and that I might not , in any way , be ...
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Page 126 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 381 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 146 - Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Page 142 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 224 - A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret : With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth...
Page 355 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 135 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 132 - God made thee perfect, not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it in thy power; ordain'd thy will By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity...
Page 220 - Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scattered at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
Page 228 - She made the earth below seem holy ground. This may be superstition, weak or wild, But even the faintest relics of a shrine Of any worship wake some thoughts divine.