Meditations and Contemplations, Volume 1J. Rivingston, 1779 - Devotional literature |
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... Obfervation on Eternity , 97 -The Wicked ; the Anguifh of their laft Sickness . No Hope but from the Religion they defpifed ; that very precarious ; the Horror of their Diffolution ; this the Beginning of Sorrows ; their Treatment in ...
... Obfervation on Eternity , 97 -The Wicked ; the Anguifh of their laft Sickness . No Hope but from the Religion they defpifed ; that very precarious ; the Horror of their Diffolution ; this the Beginning of Sorrows ; their Treatment in ...
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... Obfervation of the Difci- ples ; " What Manner of Stones , and what Build- " ings are here ! " - But what a nobler Turn of Thought , and jufter Taste of Things , does it discover ; to join with Ifrael's King , in cele- brating the ...
... Obfervation of the Difci- ples ; " What Manner of Stones , and what Build- " ings are here ! " - But what a nobler Turn of Thought , and jufter Taste of Things , does it discover ; to join with Ifrael's King , in cele- brating the ...
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... Obfervation ; filently in- viting me to read them . And what would thefe dumb Monitors inform me of ? " That " beneath their little Circumferences , were de- " pofited fuch and fuch Pieces of Clay , which " once lived , and moved , and ...
... Obfervation ; filently in- viting me to read them . And what would thefe dumb Monitors inform me of ? " That " beneath their little Circumferences , were de- " pofited fuch and fuch Pieces of Clay , which " once lived , and moved , and ...
Page 48
... Obfervation , is one of a more grave and fable Afpect than the former . I fuppofe , it preferves the Relics of a more aged Perfon . One would conjecture , that he made fomewhat of a Figure , in his Station a- mong the Living ; as his ...
... Obfervation , is one of a more grave and fable Afpect than the former . I fuppofe , it preferves the Relics of a more aged Perfon . One would conjecture , that he made fomewhat of a Figure , in his Station a- mong the Living ; as his ...
Page 144
... a Fleece of Wool ; or as these softening Drops , which now water the Earth . The Kingdom of GOD took place in their Souls , without Noife or Obfervation . They They paffed from Death unto Life , from a car- 144 REFLECTIONS ON A.
... a Fleece of Wool ; or as these softening Drops , which now water the Earth . The Kingdom of GOD took place in their Souls , without Noife or Obfervation . They They paffed from Death unto Life , from a car- 144 REFLECTIONS ON A.
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