The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul: Illustrated in a Course of Serious and Practical Addresses ; with a Devout Meditation, Or Prayer Subjoined to Each Chapter, with an Address to the Master of the Family |
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... feels agitations of mind equal in degree to those I have described . Some sense of sin , and some se- rious and humbling apprehension of our danger and misery in consequence of it , must indeed be necessary to dispose us to receive the ...
... feels agitations of mind equal in degree to those I have described . Some sense of sin , and some se- rious and humbling apprehension of our danger and misery in consequence of it , must indeed be necessary to dispose us to receive the ...
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... feel him within you , if I may so speak , in every vein , and in every nerve . You see , and you feel , not only that he hath formed you with an exquisite wisdom , which no mor- tal man could ever fully explain or comprehend , but that ...
... feel him within you , if I may so speak , in every vein , and in every nerve . You see , and you feel , not only that he hath formed you with an exquisite wisdom , which no mor- tal man could ever fully explain or comprehend , but that ...
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... feel , in my perverse nature , a secret indisposition to pursue these thoughts : a proneness , if not entirely to dismiss them , yet to lay them aside for the present . My mind is perplexed and divided ; but I am sure , thou , who ...
... feel , in my perverse nature , a secret indisposition to pursue these thoughts : a proneness , if not entirely to dismiss them , yet to lay them aside for the present . My mind is perplexed and divided ; but I am sure , thou , who ...
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... feel any secret relentings in it upon what you read , it is a sign that you are not yet utterly forsaken . But who can tell , whether these are not the last touches he will ever give to a heart so long hardened against him ? Who can ...
... feel any secret relentings in it upon what you read , it is a sign that you are not yet utterly forsaken . But who can tell , whether these are not the last touches he will ever give to a heart so long hardened against him ? Who can ...
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... feeling upon their hearts any sense that they are sinners , though they cannot , for shame , but own it in words . And therefore let me deal faithfully with you , though I may seem to deal roughly ; for complaisance is not to give law ...
... feeling upon their hearts any sense that they are sinners , though they cannot , for shame , but own it in words . And therefore let me deal faithfully with you , though I may seem to deal roughly ; for complaisance is not to give law ...
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Page 46 - For innumerable evils have compassed me about : mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up ; they are more than the hairs of mine head : therefore my heart faileth me.
Page 216 - Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee.
Page 225 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 294 - Father, I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory...
Page 294 - He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Page 178 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 302 - Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not upon thy name.
Page 228 - Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save ; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear ; but your iniquities have separated between you and your God ; and your sins have hid His face from you.
Page 76 - God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 230 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.