The afflicted man's companion: or, A directory for families and persons afflicted with sickness or any other distress

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Johnstone, Hunter, 1821 - Christian life - 322 pages

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Page 127 - And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end ; that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Page 128 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Page 151 - Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 90 - I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more With the inhabitants of the world.
Page 238 - And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Page iii - Although my house be not so with God; yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow.
Page 64 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord ; that the Lord Is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 182 - I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do. And now, 0 Father, glorify Thou me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.
Page iv - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out.
Page 83 - ... in the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

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