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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... must have been about eight or nine years old when it was thus with me ; and as in my childhood I was feveral times vifited with fevers , which brought me very low , I was led to confider how I was prepared for the awful change wherewith ...
... must have been about eight or nine years old when it was thus with me ; and as in my childhood I was feveral times vifited with fevers , which brought me very low , I was led to confider how I was prepared for the awful change wherewith ...
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... must have terminated de- plorably . I alfo read history , was fond of poetry , and had a tafte for philofophy ; fo that I was in the way to embellish my understanding ( as is the com- mon phrase ) , and become accomplished to fhine in ...
... must have terminated de- plorably . I alfo read history , was fond of poetry , and had a tafte for philofophy ; fo that I was in the way to embellish my understanding ( as is the com- mon phrase ) , and become accomplished to fhine in ...
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... must travel , and wherein I must receive the law for the ordering of my out- ward conduct : and O ! the feafons of hunger and thirst , the toffings and perplexities , the " thunder- " ings , lightnings , and tempefts , " which feemed to ...
... must travel , and wherein I must receive the law for the ordering of my out- ward conduct : and O ! the feafons of hunger and thirst , the toffings and perplexities , the " thunder- " ings , lightnings , and tempefts , " which feemed to ...
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... must go with my dear friend Mary Peifley , who I believed was preparing for that fervice : yet I never gave her any hint of ac- companying her , being defirous that if it must be my lot , it might be evidently pointed by the finger of ...
... must go with my dear friend Mary Peifley , who I believed was preparing for that fervice : yet I never gave her any hint of ac- companying her , being defirous that if it must be my lot , it might be evidently pointed by the finger of ...
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... goodness , thou hast been and still mayeft be capa- ble to perform the duty required , with a degree of cafe and cheerfulness , to which a good share of health health greatly contributes ; although it must be con- feffed 48.
... goodness , thou hast been and still mayeft be capa- ble to perform the duty required , with a degree of cafe and cheerfulness , to which a good share of health health greatly contributes ; although it must be con- feffed 48.
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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.