No Fiction: A Narrative, Founded on Recent and Interesting Facts, Volume 2Francis Westley, 1820 |
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... Father you have forsaken , is still waiting to receive you- the fountain you have despised , is still open to cleanse you - the Saviour , whose voice you have long lost in the din of carnal dissipation , still addresses you , and says ...
... Father you have forsaken , is still waiting to receive you- the fountain you have despised , is still open to cleanse you - the Saviour , whose voice you have long lost in the din of carnal dissipation , still addresses you , and says ...
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... fathers , and our fathers ' fathers . Over the whole scene the sun shone with a living brightness . Nature had shed her dews profusely on the face of the earth , as if to hide the nakedness of autumn ; and now they glittered on every ...
... fathers , and our fathers ' fathers . Over the whole scene the sun shone with a living brightness . Nature had shed her dews profusely on the face of the earth , as if to hide the nakedness of autumn ; and now they glittered on every ...
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... father . 66 Why this is proof positive . " " Let me know what I have to pay , " said Lefevre again , putting his handker- chief into his pocket , and retiring haughtily from a discussion which left him no room for any thing but ...
... father . 66 Why this is proof positive . " " Let me know what I have to pay , " said Lefevre again , putting his handker- chief into his pocket , and retiring haughtily from a discussion which left him no room for any thing but ...
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... father of lies . ' He is always tempting us either to presume or despair . " He was silent . Douglas alluded at intervals to the inviting language of Scrip- ture . " The Redeemer has said , ' Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy ...
... father of lies . ' He is always tempting us either to presume or despair . " He was silent . Douglas alluded at intervals to the inviting language of Scrip- ture . " The Redeemer has said , ' Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy ...
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... father , her smiles faded ; she fell back towards her mother , who had stopt in the middle of the room , wondering what could be the matter . 66 Come in Sir , " said the woodman , as he led Lefevre over the threshold , " though the ...
... father , her smiles faded ; she fell back towards her mother , who had stopt in the middle of the room , wondering what could be the matter . 66 Come in Sir , " said the woodman , as he led Lefevre over the threshold , " though the ...
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Page 188 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me : — " My father, Thou art the guide of my youth?
Page 251 - Behold, how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity...
Page 137 - I have no pleasure in the DEATH of a sinner, but rather that he should TURN FROM HIS WICKEDNESS AND LIVE.
Page 202 - О that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 3 - For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions.
Page 136 - Take with you words, and turn unto the Lord, and say unto Him : Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously.
Page 203 - He hath brought me up out of the horrible pit and the miry clay ; and hath set my feet upon a rock, and hath established my goings ; and hath put a new song into my mouth, even praise to my God !' O, if I am saved it must be as
Page 216 - Mine ! — Oh, say not they are too cold, too slow to kindle. They are too easily roused, too ardent, too soon bent before an earthly idol ; but" here she laid her hand on his arm — "but the right hand must be cut off, the right eye plucked out. I would not again be their slave, under the tyranny and dominion of these elements of our fallen nature, for all the pomps and vanities which they would purchase. There be mightier obstacles than those of expediency, as thou dost well imagine, to thy suit...
Page 198 - Corinthians, when he tells them that faith stands not " in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God,
Page 251 - In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free, Col.