The Persecuted Family: A Narrative of the Sufferings of the Covenanters in the Reign of Charles II |
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... BRUCE , the head of that family whose lives we are briefly to record , was the youngest son of a very re- spectable gentleman in the upper district of Lanarkshire . In his boyhood he gave such indications of superior talent , and love ...
... BRUCE , the head of that family whose lives we are briefly to record , was the youngest son of a very re- spectable gentleman in the upper district of Lanarkshire . In his boyhood he gave such indications of superior talent , and love ...
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... Bruce received a call from the inhabitants of S- ( a small village on the water of Ayr ) and its neighbourhood to to be their minister . The call , as every mi- nister of sincere heart would wish , was cor- dial and unanimous . The ...
... Bruce received a call from the inhabitants of S- ( a small village on the water of Ayr ) and its neighbourhood to to be their minister . The call , as every mi- nister of sincere heart would wish , was cor- dial and unanimous . The ...
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... Bruce's father . This marriage was the result of a long - nourished affection , founded on like tastes and like desires . As they had spent their childhood and youth near one another , they became early acquainted , and early attached ...
... Bruce's father . This marriage was the result of a long - nourished affection , founded on like tastes and like desires . As they had spent their childhood and youth near one another , they became early acquainted , and early attached ...
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... Bruce made the part- ner 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 into the hearts of all with whom she conversed ...
... Bruce made the part- ner 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 into the hearts of all with whom she conversed ...
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... Bruce spent much of his time in visiting from house to house ; a duty enjoined by the Bible , which the ministers of the seventeenth cen- tury seem to have recognized , or at least prac- tised , better than those of the nineteenth . Al ...
... Bruce spent much of his time in visiting from house to house ; a duty enjoined by the Bible , which the ministers of the seventeenth cen- tury seem to have recognized , or at least prac- tised , better than those of the nineteenth . Al ...
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Page 37 - He stablishes the strong, restores the weak, Reclaims the wanderer, binds the broken heart, And, armed himself in panoply complete Of heavenly temper, furnishes with arms Bright as his own, and trains by every rule Of holy discipline, to glorious war, The sacramental host of God's elect! COWPER.
Page 52 - 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 76 - The Lord is on my side; I will not fear what man can do unto me.
Page 25 - Their pastors were soon forbidden to preach even in the fields, or to approach within twenty miles of their former charges; and all the people, as well as their pastors, who were not prepared to abjure their dearest rights, and to submit to the most galling and iniquitous civil and religious despotism, were denounced as traitors,
Page 62 - But there is a joy in grief, when peace dwells in the bosom of the sad." They sorrowed not as those who have no hope. Mr. Bruce wiped the tear of affection from his eye, and thus addressed the peasants, who could not refrain their tears, as they stood around, and looked on the grave.
Page 52 - shadow of death, yet will I fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Page 86 - ther from us: and will you now take from me my only brother, and from my father an only son ? O, sir, have you no son, that you may know what my father will feel ? Have you no brother, dear to you as mine is to me ? My dear, dear brother!
Page 25 - despotism, were denounced as traitors, and doomed to capital punishment. To admit any one who refused compliance into shelter,—to favour his escape, or not to assist in apprehending him,—subjected the person so convicted to the same
Page 29 - their eyes to the seat, where his wife sat, bathed in tears, and her children, Andrew and Mary, 3* weeping aloud, and looking up to their father, —and when they thought, that they were to be driven out from their happy home, to wander in poverty,—again their tears flowed, and again they looked and wept. Mr. Bruce was the