A sketch of the the life of the rev. John Brown, sometime minister ... in Wamphray; with notes and a historical appendix1839 |
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... suppose that the web of his life would wear above seventy years . He who has been a month in jail , has , humanly speaking , abbreviated his life at least a year . He who has been incarcerated wrongously will necessarily feel it more ...
... suppose that the web of his life would wear above seventy years . He who has been a month in jail , has , humanly speaking , abbreviated his life at least a year . He who has been incarcerated wrongously will necessarily feel it more ...
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... suppose him to be approaching to twenty years of age , when he left the grammar school ; young men did not think of entering an university then so soon as they do now , nor was it ever the custom for those so far distant from any ...
... suppose him to be approaching to twenty years of age , when he left the grammar school ; young men did not think of entering an university then so soon as they do now , nor was it ever the custom for those so far distant from any ...
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... suppose the con- trary , is ( which we are not always aware of , ) affronting every one of his attributes ; and , at the same time , the certain con- sequence of disbelieving his care of us is , that we renounce utterly our dependance ...
... suppose the con- trary , is ( which we are not always aware of , ) affronting every one of his attributes ; and , at the same time , the certain con- sequence of disbelieving his care of us is , that we renounce utterly our dependance ...
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... suppose myself above the just suspicion of having chosen the tongue of the crafty , or used deceit or dissimulation in any thing about which I was questioned ; since I have , with so much simplicity , and in so much singleness of heart ...
... suppose myself above the just suspicion of having chosen the tongue of the crafty , or used deceit or dissimulation in any thing about which I was questioned ; since I have , with so much simplicity , and in so much singleness of heart ...
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... suppose , then , besides the tranquillity and calm in mine own conscience , for the present , which is the very rest of the soul in motion , and affords a strict inward peace and serenity of mind , in the deepest distress 48 LIFE OF THE.
... suppose , then , besides the tranquillity and calm in mine own conscience , for the present , which is the very rest of the soul in motion , and affords a strict inward peace and serenity of mind , in the deepest distress 48 LIFE OF THE.
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Page 77 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me ; Until I went into the sanctuary of God , then understood I their end.
Page 63 - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Page 269 - In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 430 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 303 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 27 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 405 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 44 - You only have I known of all the families of the earth : therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Page 2 - Will the Lord cast off for ever ? And will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious t Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies...
Page 37 - So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. 16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.