The convert. By the author of 'The two rectors'. |
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... live hereafter than at present , why not secure the future good by pressing forward from the first to the second and better state ? But upon more mature consideration I saw , and felt , also , that a hope was seated at the bottom of my ...
... live hereafter than at present , why not secure the future good by pressing forward from the first to the second and better state ? But upon more mature consideration I saw , and felt , also , that a hope was seated at the bottom of my ...
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... lives in business , retire to the country to enjoy that ease and im- munity from labour which a well - earned fortune lead them to anticipate ; and who , like the gene- rality of those who have existed in the active bustle of the world ...
... lives in business , retire to the country to enjoy that ease and im- munity from labour which a well - earned fortune lead them to anticipate ; and who , like the gene- rality of those who have existed in the active bustle of the world ...
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... live for ever afterwards amongst us , blessed as he was , and most beloved . Alas ! alas ! the ways of God are inscrutable , and it is our duty to submit to his all - wise decrees , whatever they may be , with thankfulness , rather than ...
... live for ever afterwards amongst us , blessed as he was , and most beloved . Alas ! alas ! the ways of God are inscrutable , and it is our duty to submit to his all - wise decrees , whatever they may be , with thankfulness , rather than ...
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... live . ' By this it is clear that they were left to their own free choice to be saved or not , and that there could be no previous decree to deprive them of this gracious offer For if there had , could it be 6 consistent either with the ...
... live . ' By this it is clear that they were left to their own free choice to be saved or not , and that there could be no previous decree to deprive them of this gracious offer For if there had , could it be 6 consistent either with the ...
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... live , saith the Lord God , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked , but that the wicked turn from his way and live ' Why will ye die , O House of Israel ? " .. Turn - 6 ye , turn ye unto me , saith the Lord , for , let the ...
... live , saith the Lord God , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked , but that the wicked turn from his way and live ' Why will ye die , O House of Israel ? " .. Turn - 6 ye , turn ye unto me , saith the Lord , for , let the ...
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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.