The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards: President of the College of New JerseyAndrew Wright, 1804 - 372 pages |
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... used to another way of thinking . Thursday , Oct. 18. To follow the example of Mr B- , who , though he meets with great difficulties , yet undertakes them with a fmiling countenance , as though he thought them but little ; and speaks of ...
... used to another way of thinking . Thursday , Oct. 18. To follow the example of Mr B- , who , though he meets with great difficulties , yet undertakes them with a fmiling countenance , as though he thought them but little ; and speaks of ...
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... used to be done in answer to the u- nited , carneft prayers of the whole church and if my prayers fhould have fome influence , it would be but imperceptible and fmall .. Thursday , Feb. 6 .. More convinced than ever of the usefulness of ...
... used to be done in answer to the u- nited , carneft prayers of the whole church and if my prayers fhould have fome influence , it would be but imperceptible and fmall .. Thursday , Feb. 6 .. More convinced than ever of the usefulness of ...
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... abundant in duties . I used to pray five times a - day in fecret , and to 8 topend much time in religious talk with other boys 24 The Life of the Reverend An account of his converfion, expe riences, and religious exercises, given himself,
... abundant in duties . I used to pray five times a - day in fecret , and to 8 topend much time in religious talk with other boys 24 The Life of the Reverend An account of his converfion, expe riences, and religious exercises, given himself,
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... used to retire by myfelf ; and ufed to be from time to time much affected . My affections feemed to be lively and easily moved , and I feemed to be in my element when I engaged in religious duties . And I am ready to think , many are ...
... used to retire by myfelf ; and ufed to be from time to time much affected . My affections feemed to be lively and easily moved , and I feemed to be in my element when I engaged in religious duties . And I am ready to think , many are ...
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... used to do , with a new fort of affection . But it never came in- to my thought , that there was any thing spiritual , or of a faving nature in this . " From about that time , I began to have a new kind of apprehenfions and ideas of ...
... used to do , with a new fort of affection . But it never came in- to my thought , that there was any thing spiritual , or of a faving nature in this . " From about that time , I began to have a new kind of apprehenfions and ideas of ...
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Page 38 - Once, as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been, to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man, and his wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension.
Page 69 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 224 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 227 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.
Page 113 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 215 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Page 352 - And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 27 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever, Amen. As I read the words, there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense...
Page 38 - This grace, that appeared so calm and sweet, appeared also great above the heavens. The person of Christ appeared ineffably excellent, with an excellency great enough to swallow up all thought and conception, which continued, as near as I can judge, about an hour, which kept me, the greater part of the time, in a flood of tears and weeping aloud.
Page 327 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.