The works of the rev. John Newton, Volume 1J. Johnson... and J. Smith, 1808 |
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... been then opened , I should have seen my grand enemy , who had seduced me wilfully to renounce and cast away my religious profession , and to involve 66 " < ( c myself in the most complicated crimes ; I Let . 3 . 25 Voyage to Venice , & c .
... been then opened , I should have seen my grand enemy , who had seduced me wilfully to renounce and cast away my religious profession , and to involve 66 " < ( c myself in the most complicated crimes ; I Let . 3 . 25 Voyage to Venice , & c .
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... I had a little of that unlucky wit , which can do little more than multi- ply troubles and enemies to its possessor ; and , upon 66 some imagined affront , I made a song , in 36 Let . 4 . Entry on board a Guineaman , and.
... I had a little of that unlucky wit , which can do little more than multi- ply troubles and enemies to its possessor ; and , upon 66 some imagined affront , I made a song , in 36 Let . 4 . Entry on board a Guineaman , and.
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... enemies , and obliged to fight their way through ; others meet with little remarkable in their passage . Is it not thus in the spiritual life ? All true believers walk by the same rule , and mind the same things : the word of God is ...
... enemies , and obliged to fight their way through ; others meet with little remarkable in their passage . Is it not thus in the spiritual life ? All true believers walk by the same rule , and mind the same things : the word of God is ...
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... enemy prepared a train of tempt- ations , and I became his easy prey ; and , for about a month , he lulled me asleep ... enemies . By the remembrance of this interval , the Lord has often instructed me since , what a poor creature I am ...
... enemy prepared a train of tempt- ations , and I became his easy prey ; and , for about a month , he lulled me asleep ... enemies . By the remembrance of this interval , the Lord has often instructed me since , what a poor creature I am ...
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... enemy to prevail against me . I did not break with the world at once ( as might in my case have been expected ) , but I was gradually led to see the inconvenience and folly of one thing after another ; and when I saw it , the Lord ...
... enemy to prevail against me . I did not break with the world at once ( as might in my case have been expected ) , but I was gradually led to see the inconvenience and folly of one thing after another ; and when I saw it , the Lord ...
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Page 433 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 448 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 234 - For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving : for it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.
Page 309 - A new commandment I give unto you : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another.
Page 319 - Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original.
Page 170 - Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Page 388 - And the twelve gates were twelve pearls ; every several gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass.
Page 511 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page 349 - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.