The Works of the Rev. John Fletcher: Late Vicar of MadeleyJohn Mason, 1859 - 4380 pages |
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... happy to find , by the testimonies he has received from different quarters , that the manner in which he has been enabled to execute his office of compiler , has been highly satisfactory to Mr. Fletcher's friends , and to the readers of ...
... happy to find , by the testimonies he has received from different quarters , that the manner in which he has been enabled to execute his office of compiler , has been highly satisfactory to Mr. Fletcher's friends , and to the readers of ...
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... happy . He now began to strive with the utmost diligence , according to the light he had , hoping , by doing much , to render himself acceptable to God . But one day hearing a sermon preached by a Clergyman whose name was Green , he was ...
... happy . He now began to strive with the utmost diligence , according to the light he had , hoping , by doing much , to render himself acceptable to God . But one day hearing a sermon preached by a Clergyman whose name was Green , he was ...
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... happy hour when thou wilt prevail with God : ' but still I was disappointed . I cried to God ; but my heart was so hard , that I feared it did not go with my lips . I strove ; but it was so coldly , that often I had fits of drowsiness ...
... happy hour when thou wilt prevail with God : ' but still I was disappointed . I cried to God ; but my heart was so hard , that I feared it did not go with my lips . I strove ; but it was so coldly , that often I had fits of drowsiness ...
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... happy , till he is cast , as it were , into a new mould , and created a second time . 66 * For my own part , when I first began to know myself , I saw , I felt that man is an undefinable animal ; partly of a bestial , and partly of an ...
... happy , till he is cast , as it were , into a new mould , and created a second time . 66 * For my own part , when I first began to know myself , I saw , I felt that man is an undefinable animal ; partly of a bestial , and partly of an ...
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... Happy had I been , if I had listened to the earliest invitations of grace , and broken their iron yoke from off my neck ! " 12. From this time , his hopes and fears , his desires and pursuits , were totally changed . * From the heights ...
... Happy had I been , if I had listened to the earliest invitations of grace , and broken their iron yoke from off my neck ! " 12. From this time , his hopes and fears , his desires and pursuits , were totally changed . * From the heights ...
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