Christian retirement: or Spiritual exercises of the heart, by the author of 'Christian experience as displayed in the life and writings of st. Paul'. |
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Page 23 - the Lord we have not- known it. What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us ? All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that hasteth by." "O! that men were wise; that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end I"...
Page 352 - The glory of God is also secured: " Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." This glorious change from sin to holiness, which
Page 31 - O! Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation,
Page 33 - Fully to know this hidden evil is the prerogative of Jehovah ; for when the question is asked, " Who can know it ?" the important answer is given, " I the Lord, search the heart and try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.
Page 248 - Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall say, Destroy them.
Page 8 - As in this world there is no peace to the wicked; so, in the next, they have no rest day nor night; for the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever. O ! that they were wise; that they understood this; that they would consider their latter end. We
Page 489 - I do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and
Page 497 - Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things; graft in our hearts the love of thy name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same, through Jesus Christ our Lord. The
Page 52 - Behold the nations are as the drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance behold he taketh up the isles as a very little thing." " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers: that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain
Page 478 - I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.