A Memoir of the Rev. Edward Payson, D.D.: Late Pastor of the Second Church in Portland

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Crocker and Brewster, 1832 - 400 pages

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Page 336 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 349 - One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page 167 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will praise my God while I have my being.
Page 325 - Howbeit, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Page 412 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 407 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Page 402 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
Page 324 - And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
Page 375 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,* And a twoedged sword in their hand...
Page 62 - He did not see why true believers, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come...

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