The Life of William WilberforceProtestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1857 - 767 Seiten |
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... prayer , and will be the abundant recompense of the compiler . The work was undertaken at the request of the Society under whose auspices it is published , amid the press- ure of duties of an arduous profession ; and has been revised ...
... prayer , and will be the abundant recompense of the compiler . The work was undertaken at the request of the Society under whose auspices it is published , amid the press- ure of duties of an arduous profession ; and has been revised ...
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... prayer which formed the most marked trait of his character . Whether oppressed by the care of empires or the trifling anxieties of life , he still sought that wisdom which God hath promised to bestow liberally on all who seek it ; and ...
... prayer which formed the most marked trait of his character . Whether oppressed by the care of empires or the trifling anxieties of life , he still sought that wisdom which God hath promised to bestow liberally on all who seek it ; and ...
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... Prayer " as rea- sons for the thankfulness he expresses that he did not belong to their communion ; and frequently he remarks in his Diary on the self - denial he exercised in abstaining from frequenting other places of worship , when ...
... Prayer " as rea- sons for the thankfulness he expresses that he did not belong to their communion ; and frequently he remarks in his Diary on the self - denial he exercised in abstaining from frequenting other places of worship , when ...
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... prayer , and resolved to have it every morning and evening , and to read a chapter when time . " Tuesday , 29th . I bless God I enjoyed comfort in prayer this evening . I must keep my own unworthi- ness ever in view . Pride is my ...
... prayer , and resolved to have it every morning and evening , and to read a chapter when time . " Tuesday , 29th . I bless God I enjoyed comfort in prayer this evening . I must keep my own unworthi- ness ever in view . Pride is my ...
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... prayer , I felt ashamed . " ) " I thought seriously this evening of going to con- verse with Mr. Newton - waked in the night - obliged to compel myself to think of God . " Dec. 2d . Resolved again about Mr. Newton . It may do good ; he ...
... prayer , I felt ashamed . " ) " I thought seriously this evening of going to con- verse with Mr. Newton - waked in the night - obliged to compel myself to think of God . " Dec. 2d . Resolved again about Mr. Newton . It may do good ; he ...
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Seite 501 - ... meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light.
Seite 23 - When in the slippery paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm unseen conveyed me safe, And led me up to man.
Seite 395 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee.
Seite 80 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.
Seite 556 - Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Seite 23 - I was introduced, on the very first night of my arrival, to as licentious a set of men as can well be conceived. They drank hard, and their conversation was even worse than their lives.
Seite 98 - Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity we have had our conversation in the world...
Seite 24 - did not act towards me the part of Christians, or even of honest men. Their object seemed to be to make and keep me idle. If ever I appeared studious, they would say to me — ' Why, in the world should a man of your fortune trouble himself with fagging?
Seite 184 - And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Seite 133 - He then proceeded to a particular account of his day, of the inquiries he had made respecting the poor ; there was no resident minister, no manufactory, nor did there appear any dawn of comfort, either temporal or spiritual. The...