Contemplations, Moral and Divine ...: To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Death, Volume 1J. Galbraith, 1763 |
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... faith ; others have fallen into another extreme in writing lives too jejunely , fwelling them up with trifling accounts of the childhood and education , and the domeftick or private affairs of those perfons of whom they write , in which ...
... faith ; others have fallen into another extreme in writing lives too jejunely , fwelling them up with trifling accounts of the childhood and education , and the domeftick or private affairs of those perfons of whom they write , in which ...
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... faith receiving Chrift , and re- joicing in the height of that relation . 2. Resolution of being one of his people doing him allegiance . III . Adoption and prayer . IV . Setting a watch over my own infirmities and paffions , over the ...
... faith receiving Chrift , and re- joicing in the height of that relation . 2. Resolution of being one of his people doing him allegiance . III . Adoption and prayer . IV . Setting a watch over my own infirmities and paffions , over the ...
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... faith over the world . V. Of humility . VI . Jacob's vow . VII . Of contentation . VIII . Of afflictions . IX . A good method to entertain unstable and trouble- fome times . X. Changes and troubles , a poem . XI . Of the redemption of ...
... faith over the world . V. Of humility . VI . Jacob's vow . VII . Of contentation . VIII . Of afflictions . IX . A good method to entertain unstable and trouble- fome times . X. Changes and troubles , a poem . XI . Of the redemption of ...
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... faith- fulness , and induftry , to pay fome part of that debt , that by the laws of nature and gratitude you owe unto me : be frugal in my family . but let there be no want ; provide conveniently for the poor that come to my door . And ...
... faith- fulness , and induftry , to pay fome part of that debt , that by the laws of nature and gratitude you owe unto me : be frugal in my family . but let there be no want ; provide conveniently for the poor that come to my door . And ...
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... faith ; in his mercy and power to amend what is amifs , to be more watchful , cir- cumffect , and obedient to him ; in the future course of our lives , to fear to offend him : and if a man hear this voice , God hath his end of mercy and ...
... faith ; in his mercy and power to amend what is amifs , to be more watchful , cir- cumffect , and obedient to him ; in the future course of our lives , to fear to offend him : and if a man hear this voice , God hath his end of mercy and ...
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Page 46 - The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart : and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Page 241 - Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another; and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Page 263 - For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men ; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
Page 224 - But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage ; neither can they die any more ; for they are equal unto the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 397 - The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance : He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous : Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Page 200 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 151 - Then saith He unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Page 432 - ... from doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable ; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words : " Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob ihy father : for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Page 218 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 239 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the 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.