The convert. By the author of 'The two rectors'. |
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... happiness in which I saw others placed with regard to their relatives , and the strong interest which each of these seem- ed to feel in the concerns of the others , created a disappointment that rankled in my heart , and at length ...
... happiness in which I saw others placed with regard to their relatives , and the strong interest which each of these seem- ed to feel in the concerns of the others , created a disappointment that rankled in my heart , and at length ...
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... happiness visionary , and to discover that the lei- sure he has now gained is , oftentimes , more in- tolerable than the anxieties that have engaged , though they may have continually harassed his mind . So it was with Mr. Singleton ...
... happiness visionary , and to discover that the lei- sure he has now gained is , oftentimes , more in- tolerable than the anxieties that have engaged , though they may have continually harassed his mind . So it was with Mr. Singleton ...
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... happiness was , in itself , perfectly harmless , and interfered with none but himself , I did not feel inclined to lessen it by any remarks that could lead him to think I saw the deception he prac- tised upon himself . As we rode home ...
... happiness was , in itself , perfectly harmless , and interfered with none but himself , I did not feel inclined to lessen it by any remarks that could lead him to think I saw the deception he prac- tised upon himself . As we rode home ...
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... happiness are , indeed , vain ; for the same epithet being varied in the original , both to the reward and punishment , if it does not convey the threat of everlasting punish- ment to hardened sinners , it conveys not the promise of ...
... happiness are , indeed , vain ; for the same epithet being varied in the original , both to the reward and punishment , if it does not convey the threat of everlasting punish- ment to hardened sinners , it conveys not the promise of ...
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... happiness , down to extreme misery ; so that our labour is never in vain ; ' whatever advancement we make in vir- tue , we procure a proportionable accession of future hap- piness ; as , on the other hand , every accumulation of vice is ...
... happiness , down to extreme misery ; so that our labour is never in vain ; ' whatever advancement we make in vir- tue , we procure a proportionable accession of future hap- piness ; as , on the other hand , every accumulation of vice is ...
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Page 130 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 387 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 146 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 228 - A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret : With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth...
Page 139 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 128 - LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAYS, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
Page 136 - God made thee perfect, not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it in thy power; ordain'd thy will By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity...
Page 387 - Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Page 139 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 233 - Symmetrical, but deck'd with carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.