Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary |
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... mind inclined him to melancholy . This , his biographer , and himself , towards the close of life , regarded as a serious unhappiness , not to say defect , in his character . If the requisite allowance be made for this constitutional ...
... mind inclined him to melancholy . This , his biographer , and himself , towards the close of life , regarded as a serious unhappiness , not to say defect , in his character . If the requisite allowance be made for this constitutional ...
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... mind tremulously apprehensive of sin , loathing it in every form , and for its own sake , avoiding even the appearance of evil , rising above all terrestrial considerations , advancing rapidly in holiness , and finding its only ...
... mind tremulously apprehensive of sin , loathing it in every form , and for its own sake , avoiding even the appearance of evil , rising above all terrestrial considerations , advancing rapidly in holiness , and finding its only ...
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... minds of men in the knowledge of their guilt and misery , and inciting them to flee from the " damnation of hell . " The ... mind , conformable to the plan laid down in the sacred scriptures , and has in all ages approved itself the most ...
... minds of men in the knowledge of their guilt and misery , and inciting them to flee from the " damnation of hell . " The ... mind , conformable to the plan laid down in the sacred scriptures , and has in all ages approved itself the most ...
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... mind ; particularly in discerning what within himself was to be laid to the score of melancholy ; in which he exceeded all melancholy persons that ever I was acquainted with . This was doubtless owing to a pe- culiar strength in his ...
... mind ; particularly in discerning what within himself was to be laid to the score of melancholy ; in which he exceeded all melancholy persons that ever I was acquainted with . This was doubtless owing to a pe- culiar strength in his ...
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... mind , and I soon became more senseles and remiss . - Again , when I discerned my convictions to grow languid , and thought them about to leave me ; this immediately alarmed and distressed me.- Sometimes I expected to take a large step ...
... mind , and I soon became more senseles and remiss . - Again , when I discerned my convictions to grow languid , and thought them about to leave me ; this immediately alarmed and distressed me.- Sometimes I expected to take a large step ...
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Page 485 - They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Page 27 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 477 - Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth ? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.
Page 478 - But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God...
Page 15 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 476 - ... as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 13 - Then the master of the house being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Page 308 - And, behold, there talked with Him two men, which were Moses and Elias: who appeared in glory, and spake of His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem.
Page 489 - For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth ; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Page 425 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?