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... fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . IME once past , never returns : the moment ...
... fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . IME once past , never returns : the moment ...
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... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience , and preserve the most quick and accurate sen- sibility to right and wrong . If ever your moral impressions begin to decay , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to les ...
... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience , and preserve the most quick and accurate sen- sibility to right and wrong . If ever your moral impressions begin to decay , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to les ...
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... fear , and ravage and expira- tion . All the horrors of darkness and solitude , surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tum- bled from the hills . 11 Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through the wild ...
... fear , and ravage and expira- tion . All the horrors of darkness and solitude , surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tum- bled from the hills . 11 Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through the wild ...
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... fear , there is tor- ment , " how miserable must be his state , who , by living in perpetual jealousy , lives in perpetual dread ! 3 Looking upon himself to be surrounded with spies , ene- mies , and designing men , he is a stranger to ...
... fear , there is tor- ment , " how miserable must be his state , who , by living in perpetual jealousy , lives in perpetual dread ! 3 Looking upon himself to be surrounded with spies , ene- mies , and designing men , he is a stranger to ...
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... fear they are not regarded by him . He is privy to all their thoughts , and to that anxiety of heart in particular , which is apt to trouble them on this occasion for , as it is impossible he should overlook any of his crea- tures , so ...
... fear they are not regarded by him . He is privy to all their thoughts , and to that anxiety of heart in particular , which is apt to trouble them on this occasion for , as it is impossible he should overlook any of his crea- tures , so ...
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Page 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.