Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars ...1830 - 118 pages |
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... circumstances were precarious in the highest degree , and the event was as extraordinary . Almost at the first sight of this girl ( for she was then under fourteen ) , I was impressed with an affec- tion for her , which never abated or ...
... circumstances were precarious in the highest degree , and the event was as extraordinary . Almost at the first sight of this girl ( for she was then under fourteen ) , I was impressed with an affec- tion for her , which never abated or ...
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... and the interpretation thereof sure . " I am sure I dreamed to the following effect ; and I cannot doubt , from what I have seen since , that it had a direct and easy * Baxter . C application to my own circumstances , to the dangers in 25.
... and the interpretation thereof sure . " I am sure I dreamed to the following effect ; and I cannot doubt , from what I have seen since , that it had a direct and easy * Baxter . C application to my own circumstances , to the dangers in 25.
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John Newton. application to my own circumstances , to the dangers in which I was about to plunge myself , and to the unmerited deliverance and mercy , which God would be pleased to afford me in the time of my distress . Though I have ...
John Newton. application to my own circumstances , to the dangers in which I was about to plunge myself , and to the unmerited deliverance and mercy , which God would be pleased to afford me in the time of my distress . Though I have ...
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... circumstances very nearly resembling those suggested by this extraordinary dream , when I stood helpless and hopeless upon the brink of an awful eternity ; and I doubt not , had the eyes of my mind been then opened , I should have seen ...
... circumstances very nearly resembling those suggested by this extraordinary dream , when I stood helpless and hopeless upon the brink of an awful eternity ; and I doubt not , had the eyes of my mind been then opened , I should have seen ...
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John Newton. to display his providence and care , by causing many unexpected circumstances to concur in almost an instant of time . These sudden opportunities were several times repeated ; each of them brought me into an entire new scene ...
John Newton. to display his providence and care , by causing many unexpected circumstances to concur in almost an instant of time . These sudden opportunities were several times repeated ; each of them brought me into an entire new scene ...
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Page 47 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.
Page 7 - God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 13 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh ; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 28 - If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness ; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit : I have found a ransom.
Page 9 - Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience : Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 1 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 7 - God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference : for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus...
Page 21 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 104 - Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia ; and was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea, which were in Christ ; but they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed ; and they glorified God in me.
Page 88 - I never knew sweeter or more frequent hours of divine communion than in my two last voyages to Guinea, when I was either almost secluded from society on ship-board, or when on shore among the natives.