Letters to the youngPresbyterian Board of Publications, 1828 - 241 Seiten |
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... views , than can be conceived by the reader , who contents himself with vague generalities . For instance , when you peruse the divine descent upon Mount Sinai , and when the trumpet waxing louder and louder , the mighty thunderings ...
... views , than can be conceived by the reader , who contents himself with vague generalities . For instance , when you peruse the divine descent upon Mount Sinai , and when the trumpet waxing louder and louder , the mighty thunderings ...
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... , new affections , new views of every kind , spring up spontaneously : - duty becomes choice ; obedience , a service . of the will rather than of the conscience : - and the natural language of that heart is , " LETTERS TO THE YOUNG . 69.
... , new affections , new views of every kind , spring up spontaneously : - duty becomes choice ; obedience , a service . of the will rather than of the conscience : - and the natural language of that heart is , " LETTERS TO THE YOUNG . 69.
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... views and feelings are , on one all - important subject , greatly changed . A bed of sickness has , I hope , been a bed of blessing ; and by revealing to me the awful- ness of death , has shewn to me the true value of life . Allow me ...
... views and feelings are , on one all - important subject , greatly changed . A bed of sickness has , I hope , been a bed of blessing ; and by revealing to me the awful- ness of death , has shewn to me the true value of life . Allow me ...
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... views ; I could paint you a much more me- lancholy picture of life than you could possi- bly do for yourself . The only Being who ever promised peace , prefaced that promise with a decided intimation of the world's un- utterable vanity ...
... views ; I could paint you a much more me- lancholy picture of life than you could possi- bly do for yourself . The only Being who ever promised peace , prefaced that promise with a decided intimation of the world's un- utterable vanity ...
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... views bear on the questions contained in a former part of my letter : oh ! dearest girls , may you , through him who is mighty to save , " realize them in your own hearts and lives ; find him , what myriads have found him before , " a ...
... views bear on the questions contained in a former part of my letter : oh ! dearest girls , may you , through him who is mighty to save , " realize them in your own hearts and lives ; find him , what myriads have found him before , " a ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 115 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Seite 238 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Seite 239 - And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day : And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Seite 15 - And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.
Seite 51 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
Seite 30 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Seite 100 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Seite 22 - But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Seite 23 - Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel ? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Seite 187 - Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.