Religion Recommended to Youth: In a Series of Letters Addressed to a Young Lady : to which are Added Poems on Various Occasions

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J. Soule and T. Mason, 1819 - Bereavement - 220 pages
"Sensible that much of the frivolity discoverable in the manners and fashions of modern females, arises from an improper course of reading, the author has endeavoured, in the following little volume, to present the youth of her own sex a succedaneum to the fascinating page of romance, and the dangerous luxury of novels. The following letters were originally addressed to an affectionate young friend in New- England, whose kindness has proved a solace in many trials the author has been called to encounter. ... The poems found in this little volume, were chiefly written to abstract the mind of the author from painful recollections."--Preface, p. [iii]-vi, signed and dated at Mendon, New-York, Sept. 1815.
 

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Page 119 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 116 - Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Page 106 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 24 - And also you must instruct and teach your Indians and negroes and all others how that Christ, by the grace of God, tasted death for every man...
Page 82 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 115 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 75 - The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Page 46 - The whirls of passions, and the strokes of heart. A deity believed, is joy begun ; A deity adored, is joy advanced ; A deity beloved, is joy matured.
Page 28 - Paul, to count all- things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Page 74 - ... Yes, if you had confidence in the son, and confidence in the king's power ; if you felt your guilt, and saw your danger ; if you were anxious to be saved, you would, just like the Philippian jailer, "rejoice, believing." Poor condemned sinners, you are these rebel prisoners. God is this good king. He says, "As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but that the wicked turn from his way and live.

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