Memoirs of Maria Fox: Late of TottenhamC. Gilpin, 1846 - 493 pages |
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... keep himself warm . The business carried on by John Hirst and his partners , was the manufacture of plated stirrups and bridle - bits , and my dear father was taught to work in the various processes of it . In the early part of his ...
... keep himself warm . The business carried on by John Hirst and his partners , was the manufacture of plated stirrups and bridle - bits , and my dear father was taught to work in the various processes of it . In the early part of his ...
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... keeping covenant ; and in his holy fear , he was favoured to experience preservation ; so that from the testimony of those who knew him at this period , it may be said , that in his humble walking and his circumspect life and conversa ...
... keeping covenant ; and in his holy fear , he was favoured to experience preservation ; so that from the testimony of those who knew him at this period , it may be said , that in his humble walking and his circumspect life and conversa ...
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... , stimulated his own mind to increased watch- fulness , and to a more diligent and prayerful dependence on that grace which only can keep us from falling . In the year 1783 , my father's marriage took place 12 MEMOIRS OF MARIA FOX .
... , stimulated his own mind to increased watch- fulness , and to a more diligent and prayerful dependence on that grace which only can keep us from falling . In the year 1783 , my father's marriage took place 12 MEMOIRS OF MARIA FOX .
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... keep me in this way that I go , " & c . After her return from Spalding , she remained at home , and pur- sued her education with her brothers . She made some progress with them in the Latin language , and had a relish for it , in ...
... keep me in this way that I go , " & c . After her return from Spalding , she remained at home , and pur- sued her education with her brothers . She made some progress with them in the Latin language , and had a relish for it , in ...
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... keeping in view their highest interests ; and thus , practically , to fulfil that exhortation of the apostle , " Let every one of us please his neighbour , for his good to edification . " She felt that she was not her own , but that ...
... keeping in view their highest interests ; and thus , practically , to fulfil that exhortation of the apostle , " Let every one of us please his neighbour , for his good to edification . " She felt that she was not her own , but that ...
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Page 342 - Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Page 63 - All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth : unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Page 300 - But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us...
Page 376 - Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Page 233 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Page 233 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 335 - And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea ; and it should obey you.
Page 200 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Page 188 - Forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Page 477 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.