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... pray you to answer me to this one question , Where was Christ when he said , Take , eat , this is my body ? Was he not at the table when he said so ? He was at that time alive , and suffered not till the next day . What took he but ...
... pray you to answer me to this one question , Where was Christ when he said , Take , eat , this is my body ? Was he not at the table when he said so ? He was at that time alive , and suffered not till the next day . What took he but ...
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... pray " God , in the bowels of his mercy , to send you his " " Holy Spirit , for he hath given you his great gift of " utterance , if it pleased him also to open the eyes " of your heart * . " It has been mentioned before , that Lady ...
... pray " God , in the bowels of his mercy , to send you his " " Holy Spirit , for he hath given you his great gift of " utterance , if it pleased him also to open the eyes " of your heart * . " It has been mentioned before , that Lady ...
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... pray God grant you , and send you of his grace to live in his fear , and to die in the true " Christian faith , from ... prayer drawn up by her in the time of her trouble , which will open to our readers the state of her mind in the near ...
... pray God grant you , and send you of his grace to live in his fear , and to die in the true " Christian faith , from ... prayer drawn up by her in the time of her trouble , which will open to our readers the state of her mind in the near ...
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... praying always with all manner of prayer " and supplication , that I may refer myself wholly " to thy will , abiding thy pleasure , and comforting myself in those troubles which it shall please thee " to send me , seeing such troubles ...
... praying always with all manner of prayer " and supplication , that I may refer myself wholly " to thy will , abiding thy pleasure , and comforting myself in those troubles which it shall please thee " to send me , seeing such troubles ...
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... prayed they might meet at last . " There was one Harding , who had been her father's chaplain , and that was a ... prayer for her retire- " ments ; and thus had she spent the last moments " of her life * . " 66 66 I cannot restrain ...
... prayed they might meet at last . " There was one Harding , who had been her father's chaplain , and that was a ... prayer for her retire- " ments ; and thus had she spent the last moments " of her life * . " 66 66 I cannot restrain ...
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Popular passages
Page 313 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 25 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 4 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 315 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands, and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 4 - I wis, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 224 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 252 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 425 - I am the LORD'S"; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 70 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 5 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.