The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... Sometimes they think themselves wholly senseles , and fear that the spirit of God has left them , and that they are given up to judicial hardness ; yet they appear very deeply exercised about that fear , and are in great earnest to ...
... Sometimes they think themselves wholly senseles , and fear that the spirit of God has left them , and that they are given up to judicial hardness ; yet they appear very deeply exercised about that fear , and are in great earnest to ...
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... sometimes brought to the borders of despair , and it looks as black as midnight to them a little before the day dawns in their souls ; some few instances there have been of persons , who have had such a sense of God's wrath for sin ...
... sometimes brought to the borders of despair , and it looks as black as midnight to them a little before the day dawns in their souls ; some few instances there have been of persons , who have had such a sense of God's wrath for sin ...
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... sometimes it ap- . pears in a great struggle , like something roused by an enemy , and Satan the old inhabitant seems to exert himself , like a ser- pent disturbed and enraged . Many in such circumstances , have felt a great spirit of ...
... sometimes it ap- . pears in a great struggle , like something roused by an enemy , and Satan the old inhabitant seems to exert himself , like a ser- pent disturbed and enraged . Many in such circumstances , have felt a great spirit of ...
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... sometimes their religious affections have turned into heart risings against God , because that he would not pity them , and seems to have little regard to their distress and pit- eous cries , and to all the pains they take : They think ...
... sometimes their religious affections have turned into heart risings against God , because that he would not pity them , and seems to have little regard to their distress and pit- eous cries , and to all the pains they take : They think ...
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... sometimes in mere anguish ; but generally , as soon as they have this conviction , it immediately brings their minds to a calm , and a before unexpected quiet- ness and composure ; and most frequently , though not al- ways , then the ...
... sometimes in mere anguish ; but generally , as soon as they have this conviction , it immediately brings their minds to a calm , and a before unexpected quiet- ness and composure ; and most frequently , though not al- ways , then the ...
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Page 439 - And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell ; and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Page 352 - ARISE, shine ; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people : but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee ; and the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Page 147 - Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion ; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem : behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation ; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Page 410 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 357 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
Page 342 - My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue ; but in deed, and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
Page 352 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 111 - For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Page 342 - If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day...
Page 255 - Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God. 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.