The Aged Christian's Cabinet: Containing a Variety of Essays, Conversations, and Discourses, Adapted to the Improvement, Consolation, and Animation, of Aged Christians of Every Denomination |
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... infirmities , and the more happily excited to finish his course with joy ! Having passed beyond the ordinary age of man , the writer is not unwilling to confess , that in composing these papers , he has been materially aided by his ...
... infirmities , and the more happily excited to finish his course with joy ! Having passed beyond the ordinary age of man , the writer is not unwilling to confess , that in composing these papers , he has been materially aided by his ...
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... infirmities have been so great , that they have reduced the power of rationality so low , as to produce a state somewhat like a second childhood . Eventually the blood can no longer feed and nourish the body . The animal powers thereby ...
... infirmities have been so great , that they have reduced the power of rationality so low , as to produce a state somewhat like a second childhood . Eventually the blood can no longer feed and nourish the body . The animal powers thereby ...
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... infirmity by the pressure of years , there have been instances when she has made a strong effort to recover her- self , and God in his providence has granted a re- vival , somewhat analogous to a second spring in the yearly autumn . A ...
... infirmity by the pressure of years , there have been instances when she has made a strong effort to recover her- self , and God in his providence has granted a re- vival , somewhat analogous to a second spring in the yearly autumn . A ...
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... ! III . We will next mark the feeling of the aged Christian under the infirmities and afflictions which frequently attend the closing scenes of life . And it is not uncommon to find that many such persons 26 The Aged Christian .
... ! III . We will next mark the feeling of the aged Christian under the infirmities and afflictions which frequently attend the closing scenes of life . And it is not uncommon to find that many such persons 26 The Aged Christian .
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... infirmities . In the case of Jacob , whose long life had been ex- posed to severe disappointments and hardships of an unusual kind , God was pleased to grant him his last seventeen years in the enjoyment of peace and comfort in the land ...
... infirmities . In the case of Jacob , whose long life had been ex- posed to severe disappointments and hardships of an unusual kind , God was pleased to grant him his last seventeen years in the enjoyment of peace and comfort in the land ...
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Page 260 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 27 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord: shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age: they shall be fat and flourishing; To show that the Lord is upright; he is my rock : and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 251 - So shall'. thy seed be,) and being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb ; he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Page 397 - Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.
Page 237 - And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran ; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Page 197 - She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Page 115 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 284 - For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 56 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 229 - For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive ; And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee.