Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars ...1830 - 118 pages |
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... whole human race had thus destroyed themselves , and were , as it were , shut up to hopeless condemnation , as the breakers of the divine law , God revealed a way of deliverance , in which he manifested himself to be at once the just ...
... whole human race had thus destroyed themselves , and were , as it were , shut up to hopeless condemnation , as the breakers of the divine law , God revealed a way of deliverance , in which he manifested himself to be at once the just ...
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... whole frame - the last moment of your existence here will come - eternity will come - the Judge will come - and if grace pre- vent not , hell will come . But yet , while in life there is hope , and that God whom you are so shamefully ...
... whole frame - the last moment of your existence here will come - eternity will come - the Judge will come - and if grace pre- vent not , hell will come . But yet , while in life there is hope , and that God whom you are so shamefully ...
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... whole employment was the care of my education . I have some faint remembrance of her care and instructions . At a time when I could not be more than three years of age , she herself taught me English : and with so much success ( as I ...
... whole employment was the care of my education . I have some faint remembrance of her care and instructions . At a time when I could not be more than three years of age , she herself taught me English : and with so much success ( as I ...
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... whole is conducted in a prudential manner , and in subordination to the will and fear of God . When things are thus situated , it is a blessing to be susceptive of the tender pas- sions ; but when these concomitants are wanting , what ...
... whole is conducted in a prudential manner , and in subordination to the will and fear of God . When things are thus situated , it is a blessing to be susceptive of the tender pas- sions ; but when these concomitants are wanting , what ...
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... whole fleet was greatly endangered upon the coast of Cornwall , by a storm from the southward . The darkness of the night , and the number of the vessels , occasioned much confusion and damage . Our ship , though several times in ...
... whole fleet was greatly endangered upon the coast of Cornwall , by a storm from the southward . The darkness of the night , and the number of the vessels , occasioned much confusion and damage . Our ship , though several times in ...
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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.