Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips: To which are Added Some of Her EpistlesJ. Phillips and son, 1797 - 382 pages |
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... favoured to retain the beft life . The Lord greatly bleffed her endeavours for her children , in temporals ; and I doubt not heard her prayers that the dew of heaven might reft upon them . She would fay , the defired not great riches ...
... favoured to retain the beft life . The Lord greatly bleffed her endeavours for her children , in temporals ; and I doubt not heard her prayers that the dew of heaven might reft upon them . She would fay , the defired not great riches ...
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... favoured in his youth , had flighted his foul's mercies , and pursued lying vanities . He kept house in the town ; and through him , myself , and my fisters , had opportunities of obtaining plays and romances , which I read with avidity ...
... favoured in his youth , had flighted his foul's mercies , and pursued lying vanities . He kept house in the town ; and through him , myself , and my fisters , had opportunities of obtaining plays and romances , which I read with avidity ...
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... favoured with good natural understandings , clothed with heavenly wisdom , they would become and appear truly great , in the dignified fimplicity and humility of the fervice of the King of kings . Human knowledge and acquirements too ...
... favoured with good natural understandings , clothed with heavenly wisdom , they would become and appear truly great , in the dignified fimplicity and humility of the fervice of the King of kings . Human knowledge and acquirements too ...
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... favoured with a renewed vifita- tion of divine love , and grew uneafy with my fitua- tion . Home became defirable , although I knew it to be a houfe of affliction ; and on my intimating it to my dear mother , my brother James fetched me ...
... favoured with a renewed vifita- tion of divine love , and grew uneafy with my fitua- tion . Home became defirable , although I knew it to be a houfe of affliction ; and on my intimating it to my dear mother , my brother James fetched me ...
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... favoured to difcover beyond it , and the divine love which I faw therein , I said , in the fecret of my foul , " It is good " for me to be under it ; " and I was made willing patiently to abide the judgments of the Lord for fin , in ...
... favoured to difcover beyond it , and the divine love which I faw therein , I said , in the fecret of my foul , " It is good " for me to be under it ; " and I was made willing patiently to abide the judgments of the Lord for fin , in ...
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Page 43 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 374 - But now" (the vail .which was upon the heart being taken away, and the Spirit of the Lord having taken up his dwelling in it, ver. 16, 17.)" we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 265 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Page 278 - ... for the edifying of the body of Chrift ; till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the mcafurc of the ftaturc of the fulnefs of Chrift...
Page 345 - So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous : verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Page 346 - Amen. THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowfhip of the Holy Ghoft be with us all evermore.
Page 349 - Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers
Page 43 - Who hath woe, who hath forrow, who hath contentions, who hath babblings, who hath wounds without caufe, who hath rednefs of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to feek mixed wine.
Page 278 - From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint fupplieth, according to the effectual working in the meafure of every part, maketh increafe of the body, unto the edifying of itfelf in love.Tbe Gofpel.