Personal RecollectionsJohn S. Taylor, 1842 - 303 pages |
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... Hope - True Comfort - Sympathy - True Feeling .. LETTER XIII . NATIONAL APOSTACY . - A Summary - Our Protest - Down- hill Course A Will and a Way - Preparatory Steps- Successful Efforts - Our Duties — Mr . M'Neile - Epis- copal ...
... Hope - True Comfort - Sympathy - True Feeling .. LETTER XIII . NATIONAL APOSTACY . - A Summary - Our Protest - Down- hill Course A Will and a Way - Preparatory Steps- Successful Efforts - Our Duties — Mr . M'Neile - Epis- copal ...
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... hope that God may put it into the hearts of those who have the power so to do , to revise what in the main is so truly excellent and scriptural , and by a few verbal corrections to do away with whatever may cast a stumbling - block ...
... hope that God may put it into the hearts of those who have the power so to do , to revise what in the main is so truly excellent and scriptural , and by a few verbal corrections to do away with whatever may cast a stumbling - block ...
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... hope of slaying him , and not a few English women meditated giving him Jael's welcome , still the name of Bonaparte carried with it a spell that convinces me he was specially commissioned to execute God's wrath , and " smite the nations ...
... hope of slaying him , and not a few English women meditated giving him Jael's welcome , still the name of Bonaparte carried with it a spell that convinces me he was specially commissioned to execute God's wrath , and " smite the nations ...
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... hope of suc- cour , I looked it boldly in the face , confident in my false hope . Although just then revelling in enjoyments best suited to my natural taste , life had in reality no charms for me . From all that had gilded the sunny ...
... hope of suc- cour , I looked it boldly in the face , confident in my false hope . Although just then revelling in enjoyments best suited to my natural taste , life had in reality no charms for me . From all that had gilded the sunny ...
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... hope of shifting the vessel's course , but were instantly torn into ribbands . At one time , for a moment , the rudder broke loose , the tiller - rope giving way under the violent strain upon it ; and the next minute the spanker - boom ...
... hope of shifting the vessel's course , but were instantly torn into ribbands . At one time , for a moment , the rudder broke loose , the tiller - rope giving way under the violent strain upon it ; and the next minute the spanker - boom ...
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Page 293 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful.
Page 250 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
Page 258 - But every man in his own order; Christ the first fruits; afterwards they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
Page 212 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Page 52 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land : the prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means ; and My people love to have it so : and what will ye do in the end thereof?'1 What call you that, lads?
Page 54 - ... which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Page 28 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 285 - From all sedition and privy conspiracy, from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities, from all false doctrine and heresy, from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment.
Page 48 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever : but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me ; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Page 205 - We uplift the expectant eye, Our redemption draweth nigh. When the fig-tree shoots appear, Men proclaim their summer near ; When the hearts of rebels fail, We the coming Saviour hail ; Bridegroom of the weeping spouse ! Listen to her longing vows, Listen to her...