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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... used to please himself , by making up the number in one day , in which he had been deficient on another . After many changes in the frame of his heart , Provi- dence again afflicted him with a fever , in the 19th year of his age , which ...
... used to please himself , by making up the number in one day , in which he had been deficient on another . After many changes in the frame of his heart , Provi- dence again afflicted him with a fever , in the 19th year of his age , which ...
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... used more means to fubdue the enmity of my heart , and its rebellion , than he hath used for an hundred befide . How aftonishing , that God's Son fhould get gall and vinegar to drink when his thirft was great , and yet I fhould have ...
... used more means to fubdue the enmity of my heart , and its rebellion , than he hath used for an hundred befide . How aftonishing , that God's Son fhould get gall and vinegar to drink when his thirft was great , and yet I fhould have ...
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... used , and to profecute them with more activity than ever I did . I am but weak , but it is delightful to find one's felf weak in everlasting arms . O how much I owe my Lord ! O how marvellously God had continued my judgment ...
... used , and to profecute them with more activity than ever I did . I am but weak , but it is delightful to find one's felf weak in everlasting arms . O how much I owe my Lord ! O how marvellously God had continued my judgment ...
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... used to take notice of that providence which manageth all for the glory of God and the good of the church . To talk in company about the advance- C 2 ment ment of ministers falaries , he ftudiously avoided . Well ( 27 )
... used to take notice of that providence which manageth all for the glory of God and the good of the church . To talk in company about the advance- C 2 ment ment of ministers falaries , he ftudiously avoided . Well ( 27 )
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... used to rife between four and five in the morning , at fix in winter , and to ftudy till eight in the evening . The hours which thousands wafte in ficep , he bufily em- ployed ployed either in prayer , reading , or writing . ( 28 )
... used to rife between four and five in the morning , at fix in winter , and to ftudy till eight in the evening . The hours which thousands wafte in ficep , he bufily em- ployed ployed either in prayer , reading , or writing . ( 28 )
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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.