Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton ...: With General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and CharacterW. Baynes and Son, 1824 - 127 pages |
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... expected from a person entirely ig- norant of God's righteousness , and desirous to establish his own . I spent the greatest part of every day in read- ing the Scriptures , and in meditation and prayer . I fasted often : I even ...
... expected from a person entirely ig- norant of God's righteousness , and desirous to establish his own . I spent the greatest part of every day in read- ing the Scriptures , and in meditation and prayer . I fasted often : I even ...
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... expected , his father was willing he should remain in the navy , and procured him a recommendation to the captain , who sent him upon the quarter deck as a midshipman . He might now have had ease and respect , had it not been for his ...
... expected , his father was willing he should remain in the navy , and procured him a recommendation to the captain , who sent him upon the quarter deck as a midshipman . He might now have had ease and respect , had it not been for his ...
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... expected to be ( as it proved ) for five years . Yet nothing I either felt or feared distressed me so much as to see myself thus forcibly torn away from the object of my affections , under a great improbability of seeing her again , and ...
... expected to be ( as it proved ) for five years . Yet nothing I either felt or feared distressed me so much as to see myself thus forcibly torn away from the object of my affections , under a great improbability of seeing her again , and ...
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... expected , and seldom missed , was the same as if I had taken tartar emetic ; so that I have often returned as empty as I went , yet necessity urged me to repeat the trial several times . I have sometimes been relieved by strangers ...
... expected , and seldom missed , was the same as if I had taken tartar emetic ; so that I have often returned as empty as I went , yet necessity urged me to repeat the trial several times . I have sometimes been relieved by strangers ...
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... expected those fish ( as it afterwards proved ) would be all they would have to subsist on . They left the banks , March 1st , with a hard gale of wind westerly , which pushed them fast homewards . By the length of this voyage , in a ...
... expected those fish ( as it afterwards proved ) would be all they would have to subsist on . They left the banks , March 1st , with a hard gale of wind westerly , which pushed them fast homewards . By the length of this voyage , in a ...
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Page 113 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 68 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves...
Page 77 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.
Page 83 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 122 - Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Page 106 - But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...
Page 123 - But seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you ? Dare you believe this promise or not ? I DARE : and will act accordingly, by God's assistance.
Page 66 - And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
Page 78 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee ; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee...
Page 74 - ... chiefly fixed upon the skill of the composer, in adapting the style of his music to the very solemn language and subject with which they are trifling. The King, however, out of his great clemency and compassion towards those who have no pity for themselves, prevents them with his goodness.