The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... happiness ; as so many warnings not to set up our rest here ; as so many incentives to draw us on in pursuit of that better state to which eternal mercy is conducting us through this thorny way . To keep God habitually in view , as the ...
... happiness ; as so many warnings not to set up our rest here ; as so many incentives to draw us on in pursuit of that better state to which eternal mercy is conducting us through this thorny way . To keep God habitually in view , as the ...
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... happiness . The in- telligent child perceives his father's motive for restraining him , till the act of obedience having induced the habit , and both having broken in his rebellious will , he loves the parent the more for the restraint ...
... happiness . The in- telligent child perceives his father's motive for restraining him , till the act of obedience having induced the habit , and both having broken in his rebellious will , he loves the parent the more for the restraint ...
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... happiness without merit ; to Him whose veracity fulfils all the promises which his good- ness has made ; to Him whose pity commiserates the afflict- ed , whose bounty supplies the indigent , whose long - suffering bears with the ...
... happiness without merit ; to Him whose veracity fulfils all the promises which his good- ness has made ; to Him whose pity commiserates the afflict- ed , whose bounty supplies the indigent , whose long - suffering bears with the ...
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... happiness to be bound up with our obedience . Thus his goodness invites us to a compliance , which his sovereignty might have demanded on the single ground that it was his due . Whereas he seems almost to wave our duty as a claim , as ...
... happiness to be bound up with our obedience . Thus his goodness invites us to a compliance , which his sovereignty might have demanded on the single ground that it was his due . Whereas he seems almost to wave our duty as a claim , as ...
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... happiness . To render this trying petition easy to us , is one great reason why God , by such a variety of providences , afflicts and brings us low . He knows that we want incentives to humility , even more than incitements to virtuous ...
... happiness . To render this trying petition easy to us , is one great reason why God , by such a variety of providences , afflicts and brings us low . He knows that we want incentives to humility , even more than incitements to virtuous ...
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