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... Providence in that elevated rank , which allows her virtues to shine with extensive lustre , and to diffuse their auspicious influence over a whole land . That this influence of Your MAJESTY'S virtues may long continue to be felt ; that ...
... Providence in that elevated rank , which allows her virtues to shine with extensive lustre , and to diffuse their auspicious influence over a whole land . That this influence of Your MAJESTY'S virtues may long continue to be felt ; that ...
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... Providence , which disposes of human affairs , not with reverence only , but with trust and hope . The time of prosperity was to him not merely a season of barren joy , but productive of much useful improvement . He had cultivated his ...
... Providence , which disposes of human affairs , not with reverence only , but with trust and hope . The time of prosperity was to him not merely a season of barren joy , but productive of much useful improvement . He had cultivated his ...
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... Providence , and supported by conscious integrity , his character rises , and his mi- sery lessens in our view . We esteem and admire , rather than pity him . Recollect what holy men have endured for the sake of conscience , and with ...
... Providence , and supported by conscious integrity , his character rises , and his mi- sery lessens in our view . We esteem and admire , rather than pity him . Recollect what holy men have endured for the sake of conscience , and with ...
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... providence saw it necessary to place so many of his creatures in an afflicted state , that state , however , he commiserates . He disdains not to point out himself as the refuge of the virtuous and pious ; and to invite them , amidst ...
... providence saw it necessary to place so many of his creatures in an afflicted state , that state , however , he commiserates . He disdains not to point out himself as the refuge of the virtuous and pious ; and to invite them , amidst ...
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... Providence conducting all the hidden springs and movements of the universe ; and with a secret , but unerring operation , directing every event towards the happiness of the righteous . Those afflictions which appear to others the ...
... Providence conducting all the hidden springs and movements of the universe ; and with a secret , but unerring operation , directing every event towards the happiness of the righteous . Those afflictions which appear to others the ...
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