An Extract of the Life and Death of T. Halyburton ...T. Cordeux, printer, 1813 - 81 pages |
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... look death in the face , not only without fear , but with joy , good it were I had never been born . " But how or where this was to be obtained I was utterly uncertain . Here I lay in great perplexity , under the melancholy fenfe that I ...
... look death in the face , not only without fear , but with joy , good it were I had never been born . " But how or where this was to be obtained I was utterly uncertain . Here I lay in great perplexity , under the melancholy fenfe that I ...
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... look toward a return . 10. But though by these means I got a name to live , yet was I really dead . For , 1. My natural dark- nefs ftill remained , though with fome fmall dawnings of light . 2. The enmity of my mind against the law of ...
... look toward a return . 10. But though by these means I got a name to live , yet was I really dead . For , 1. My natural dark- nefs ftill remained , though with fome fmall dawnings of light . 2. The enmity of my mind against the law of ...
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... look back with wonder at the aftonishing patience of God , which fuffered my man- ners fo long , and the steadiness he fhewed in pursuing his work , notwithstanding all my provocations . All the creation could not have afforded fo much ...
... look back with wonder at the aftonishing patience of God , which fuffered my man- ners fo long , and the steadiness he fhewed in pursuing his work , notwithstanding all my provocations . All the creation could not have afforded fo much ...
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... look into the Bible . 6. The fubtle enemy , who had fo often before tempted me to pride , now preffed me to a bastard fort of humility . " How can fuch an one as you expect to remove difficulties , which fo many abler men have funk ...
... look into the Bible . 6. The fubtle enemy , who had fo often before tempted me to pride , now preffed me to a bastard fort of humility . " How can fuch an one as you expect to remove difficulties , which fo many abler men have funk ...
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... look up . They were fet in order in the dreadfulness of their nature , and aggravations ; my excufes baffled , and my mouth ftopped before God . All the ways I had taken for my relief had deceived me ; they were the ftaff of a broken ...
... look up . They were fet in order in the dreadfulness of their nature , and aggravations ; my excufes baffled , and my mouth ftopped before God . All the ways I had taken for my relief had deceived me ; they were the ftaff of a broken ...
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Page 48 - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord.
Page 21 - ... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.
Page 45 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 58 - Having therefore, brethren, boldnefs to enter into the holieft by the blood of Jefus, by a new and living way, which he hath confecrated for us, through the vail, that is to fay, his flefh...
Page 48 - Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Page 72 - I, a poor, weak and timorous man, once as much afraid of death as any one ; I, who was many years under the terrors of death, come, in the mercy of God, and by the power of his grace, composedly, and with joy, to look death in the face.
Page 66 - O how do I wonder at myself, that I do not love him more, that I do not admire him more ! O that I could honour him ! What a wonder that I enjoy such composure under all my bodily...
Page 71 - Afia, that we were prefled out of meafure, above our ftrength, infomuch that we defpaired even of life ; — but we had the fentence of death in ourfelves, that we fhould not truft in ourfelves, but in God, who raifeth the dead...
Page 29 - He made all his goodness pass before me, and he proclaimed his name 'the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin, who will be gracious to whom he will be gracious, and will shew mercy to whom he will shew mercy.
Page 66 - He came to me " in the third watch of the night, walking upon the waters ;" and he said to me, " I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end ; I was dead, and am alive, and live for evermore, and have the keys of hell and death ; " and added, " He stilled the tempest, and O there is a sweet calm in my soul!