The Life of David Marks, to the 26th Year of His Age, Including the Particulars of His Conversion, Call to the Ministry, and Labours in Itinerant Preaching for Nearly Eleven YearsPrinted at the office of the Morning Star, 1831 - 396 pages |
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... heart . At the age of four years , a sense of death and judgment caused awful feelings to pervade my soul ; particularly , one day , when I was alone amus- ing myself with burning the tow of flax ; the dreadful agony of the wicked in ...
... heart . At the age of four years , a sense of death and judgment caused awful feelings to pervade my soul ; particularly , one day , when I was alone amus- ing myself with burning the tow of flax ; the dreadful agony of the wicked in ...
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... heart was tenderly affected , and seri- ous impressions deepened . But a painful scene quickly followed . My father journeyed to the western part of New- York . Immediately after his departure , Jeremiah was severely wounded in the foot ...
... heart was tenderly affected , and seri- ous impressions deepened . But a painful scene quickly followed . My father journeyed to the western part of New- York . Immediately after his departure , Jeremiah was severely wounded in the foot ...
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... heart beat high , when I thought it might be thus with my brother . But as the coffin lid was raised , all my hope vanished , and my sorrow returned . That face , once blooming in health , was now covered with mould , and those 2 * A ...
... heart beat high , when I thought it might be thus with my brother . But as the coffin lid was raised , all my hope vanished , and my sorrow returned . That face , once blooming in health , was now covered with mould , and those 2 * A ...
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... heart ; and this seemed an awful moment , on which my eternal destiny was poised . It appear- ed to me that heaven or hell , depended on the keep- ing , or not keeping of this resolution . And I felt unwilling to leave myself the least ...
... heart ; and this seemed an awful moment , on which my eternal destiny was poised . It appear- ed to me that heaven or hell , depended on the keep- ing , or not keeping of this resolution . And I felt unwilling to leave myself the least ...
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... heart ; for I labored to feel again my former load of guilt , and constantly prayed that conviction might return , but in vain . Heaven seemed deaf to my entreaties ; and while thus praying , my heart seemed so hard , that dreadful ...
... heart ; for I labored to feel again my former load of guilt , and constantly prayed that conviction might return , but in vain . Heaven seemed deaf to my entreaties ; and while thus praying , my heart seemed so hard , that dreadful ...
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Page 182 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts : for the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 110 - And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Page 278 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...
Page 313 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 369 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 191 - It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting...
Page 128 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Page 254 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 40 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 132 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.