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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Page 14
... sorrow . Its first stages are scarcely perceptible , and most generally misunderstood , The person complains of an unusual lassitude or weariness in walking , or when employed in his ac- customed labour , which he is disposed to ...
... sorrow . Its first stages are scarcely perceptible , and most generally misunderstood , The person complains of an unusual lassitude or weariness in walking , or when employed in his ac- customed labour , which he is disposed to ...
Page 28
... sorrows of life teach him the uncertainty and vanity of all created enjoyments , and gives him a better relish for those which are spiritual and divine ; while they seldom fail to produce in his bosom a sympathetic tone of feeling for ...
... sorrows of life teach him the uncertainty and vanity of all created enjoyments , and gives him a better relish for those which are spiritual and divine ; while they seldom fail to produce in his bosom a sympathetic tone of feeling for ...
Page 36
... sorrow . Being introduced to the widow's chamber , the following conversation passed between them . Conversation between Mrs. Stevenson , & c . 37 My Conversation between Mrs Stevenson and the Widow Lee, on the Death of her venerated ...
... sorrow . Being introduced to the widow's chamber , the following conversation passed between them . Conversation between Mrs. Stevenson , & c . 37 My Conversation between Mrs Stevenson and the Widow Lee, on the Death of her venerated ...
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... is the patriarch Jacob , the endeared father of Joseph , who , having passed the scenes of his day in bitter- ness and sorrow , is rescued from the famine in Canaan , and with his family placed in the land 48 Jacob presented to Pharaoh .
... is the patriarch Jacob , the endeared father of Joseph , who , having passed the scenes of his day in bitter- ness and sorrow , is rescued from the famine in Canaan , and with his family placed in the land 48 Jacob presented to Pharaoh .
Page 52
... sorrow to the grave . How many are the afflictions of the righteous ! Yet all these , as in the case of Jacob , work together for good to them that love God ; and eventually the richest fruit shall be pro- duced . Let the aged reader ...
... sorrow to the grave . How many are the afflictions of the righteous ! Yet all these , as in the case of Jacob , work together for good to them that love God ; and eventually the richest fruit shall be pro- duced . Let the aged reader ...
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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.