The Posthumous Works of the Late Rev. Mr. John Brown, Minister of the Gospel at Haddington: With Short Memoirs, and a Summary of what He Uttered in His Last IllnessR. Morrison and Son, booksellers, Perth., 1797 - 290 pages |
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... father had got no regular education in reading . About the eighth year of his age , he happened , in a crowd , to push into the church of Abernethy , on a fa- cramental Sabbath : then , it was common for all but in- tended communicants ...
... father had got no regular education in reading . About the eighth year of his age , he happened , in a crowd , to push into the church of Abernethy , on a fa- cramental Sabbath : then , it was common for all but in- tended communicants ...
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... father dying about the eleventh year of his age , and his mother foon after , he was left a poor orphan , and had nothing to depend on but the providence of God in the meantime , he owns the Lord was remark- ably to him the father of ...
... father dying about the eleventh year of his age , and his mother foon after , he was left a poor orphan , and had nothing to depend on but the providence of God in the meantime , he owns the Lord was remark- ably to him the father of ...
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... father's houfe , that thou haft brought me hitherto ! Upon a reflection on God's providence , I look upon it as a mercy , that , confidering the dreadful pride of my heart , God did not make my talent to be in a quick and extensive view ...
... father's houfe , that thou haft brought me hitherto ! Upon a reflection on God's providence , I look upon it as a mercy , that , confidering the dreadful pride of my heart , God did not make my talent to be in a quick and extensive view ...
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... father's God , and I will exalt thee ; " he added , we fhould reckon him a madman who would throw away a father's estate ; but he is much more foolish who would throw away a father's God . Oh what kindness · God has heaped upon me fince ...
... father's God , and I will exalt thee ; " he added , we fhould reckon him a madman who would throw away a father's estate ; but he is much more foolish who would throw away a father's God . Oh what kindness · God has heaped upon me fince ...
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... Father's kingdom , which will neither hurt head nor heart . Oh that I had all the world around me , that I might tell them of Chrift ! Had Iten thousand tongues , and and ten thousand hearts , and were I employing them ( 16 )
... Father's kingdom , which will neither hurt head nor heart . Oh that I had all the world around me , that I might tell them of Chrift ! Had Iten thousand tongues , and and ten thousand hearts , and were I employing them ( 16 )
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Page 6 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; And see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, And make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Page 155 - And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness : and thou shalt know the Lord.
Page 246 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Page 112 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Page 170 - Spirit, not by the works of the law, but by the hearing of faith.
Page 198 - And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Page 155 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me : — " My father, Thou art the guide of my youth?
Page 255 - This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave finners ; of whom I am chief.
Page 24 - Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens fhall pafs away with a great noife, and the elements fhall melt with fervent heat, the earth alfo and the works that are therein (hall fee burnt up.
Page 23 - I have met with trials as well as others : yet so kind has God been to me, that I think, if He were to give me as many years as I have already lived in the world, I should not desire one single circumstance in my lot changed, except that I wish I had less sin. It might be written on my coffin, ' Here lies one of the cares of Providence, who early wanted both father and mother, and yet never missed them.