The Persecuted Family: A Narrative of the Sufferings of the Presbyterians in the Reign of Charles II |
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... mother . Eager to instruct all , Mr. Bruce was doubly so with regard to his own children . He observed with a father's and Christian's eye the opening of their infant faculties , and , at an early hour , shed upon them the light of ...
... mother . Eager to instruct all , Mr. Bruce was doubly so with regard to his own children . He observed with a father's and Christian's eye the opening of their infant faculties , and , at an early hour , shed upon them the light of ...
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... mother : and never had parents more comfort in instructing and watching over their offspring . They loved their parents , and did every thing to please them they loved each other , feared God , and delighted in obeying his will . They ...
... mother : and never had parents more comfort in instructing and watching over their offspring . They loved their parents , and did every thing to please them they loved each other , feared God , and delighted in obeying his will . They ...
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... mother speaking of their leaving him . Andrew was at this time in his thirteenth year , a fine smart - looking boy ; stout at his age , his hair black and bushy , and his eye full , dark , and pene- trating . Of his talents we have ...
... mother speaking of their leaving him . Andrew was at this time in his thirteenth year , a fine smart - looking boy ; stout at his age , his hair black and bushy , and his eye full , dark , and pene- trating . Of his talents we have ...
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... mother , her father , and her brother , to hear them say she had done well , made her hap- py . A fairer and a sweeter plant hath nature no where ; and , in the retirement of the secluded manse , she looked like one of those flowers ...
... mother , her father , and her brother , to hear them say she had done well , made her hap- py . A fairer and a sweeter plant hath nature no where ; and , in the retirement of the secluded manse , she looked like one of those flowers ...
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... mother , while the peasants gathered round , and wept in silence . It was some time before any one could find self- command enough to speak . Andrew , whose vi- gorous mind would not permit him to give himself long up to unavailing ...
... mother , while the peasants gathered round , and wept in silence . It was some time before any one could find self- command enough to speak . Andrew , whose vi- gorous mind would not permit him to give himself long up to unavailing ...
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Page 30 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 30 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, — Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 60 - Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill ; For thou art with me ; and thy rod And staff me comfort still.
Page xv - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 121 - Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory : where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained ? Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Page 61 - Then, as it is beautifully expressed by Graharne, -rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; the solitary place was glad; And, on the distant cairn, the watcher's ear Caught, doubtfully at times, the breeze-borne note.
Page 59 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Page 55 - The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Page 44 - Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace. He stablishes the strong, restores the weak, Reclaims the wanderer, binds the broken heart, And...
Page xix - ... known. Such was the young lady, whom, in her -twenty-fourth year, Mr Bruce made the partner of his life. Her good report had reached the village before her, and she was received with joy. The meekness and innocence of her countenance was a passport...