A Memoir of the Rev. Edward Payson: Late Pastor of the Second Church in PortlandCrocker and Brewster, 1830 - 400 pages |
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Page vi
... seen out of the closet ; nor even there , except by the writer only . As religion is so much the business of the closet , it is evident that no man's Christian character can be fully developed without exhibiting the transactions of that ...
... seen out of the closet ; nor even there , except by the writer only . As religion is so much the business of the closet , it is evident that no man's Christian character can be fully developed without exhibiting the transactions of that ...
Page vii
... seen that only a small part of the memoir has been drawn from the six manuscript volumes of his diary . It has been my first care to give a faithful history , and not to delineate a perfect character . I am not aware that any deductions ...
... seen that only a small part of the memoir has been drawn from the six manuscript volumes of his diary . It has been my first care to give a faithful history , and not to delineate a perfect character . I am not aware that any deductions ...
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... tast for the sublime very early discovered itself . During a tempest he might be seen exposed on the top of the fence , or some of other eminence , while the lightnings played and the thunders rolled around him , -sitting in 8 MEMOIR OF.
... tast for the sublime very early discovered itself . During a tempest he might be seen exposed on the top of the fence , or some of other eminence , while the lightnings played and the thunders rolled around him , -sitting in 8 MEMOIR OF.
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... seen , sufficient evidence of his deep solicitude for their moral and religious welfare , from the time at which he was comfortably assured of his own " acceptance in the Beloved . " It would seem , from some allusions in his sermons ...
... seen , sufficient evidence of his deep solicitude for their moral and religious welfare , from the time at which he was comfortably assured of his own " acceptance in the Beloved . " It would seem , from some allusions in his sermons ...
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... seen nothing of the kind before , its effects on my feelings were irresistible . The perpetual groans and ravings of the dying - whose head I was for hours obliged to support with one hand , while I wiped off the sweat of death with the ...
... seen nothing of the kind before , its effects on my feelings were irresistible . The perpetual groans and ravings of the dying - whose head I was for hours obliged to support with one hand , while I wiped off the sweat of death with the ...
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A Memoir of the Rev. Edward Payson [By A. Cummings. Ed. by A.L. Payson] Asa Cummings No preview available - 2022 |
A Memoir of the REV. Edward Payson [By A. Cummings. Ed. by A.L. Payson] Asa Cummings No preview available - 2017 |
A Memoir of the Rev. Edward Payson [by A. Cummings. Ed. by A.L. Payson] Asa Cummings No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 378 - 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 422 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 367 - 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 453 - 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 149 - A man's heart deviseth his way : but the LORD directeth his steps.
Page 444 - 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 230 - For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and be with Christ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Page 422 - Behold, for peace I had great bitterness : but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption : for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Page 449 - 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 222 - Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church...