Sarah Martin, the Prison Visitor, of Great Yarmouth: With Extracts from Her Writings & Prison JournalsReligious tract society, 1799 - 144 pages |
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Page 11
... feeling , and impatience before God , have arisen before an evil , when anger would have assumed the place of patient enduring love , and when my own sins before God became greater than that , which was to be deplored and reproved by me ...
... feeling , and impatience before God , have arisen before an evil , when anger would have assumed the place of patient enduring love , and when my own sins before God became greater than that , which was to be deplored and reproved by me ...
Page 17
... feel that I am a guilty sinner , but I cast myself entirely on the mercy of God in his dear Son . " He was a meek and lowly saint , happy in the hope that the Lord would soon re- ceive him . In witnessing the happy state of his mind ...
... feel that I am a guilty sinner , but I cast myself entirely on the mercy of God in his dear Son . " He was a meek and lowly saint , happy in the hope that the Lord would soon re- ceive him . In witnessing the happy state of his mind ...
Page 18
... feel lowly in the pre- sence of this great man , for such he was . To the question , whether I could bring him any thing he would like , he replied thoughtfully , after a moment or two , " No , I want nothing ; how good the Lord is ...
... feel lowly in the pre- sence of this great man , for such he was . To the question , whether I could bring him any thing he would like , he replied thoughtfully , after a moment or two , " No , I want nothing ; how good the Lord is ...
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... feel angry and hurt if you refuse to accept it . I must entreat you to do this , " etc. My letter to Mr. will best express my feelings on that subject . I transcribe nearly the whole of it . " You have long known my views on this ...
... feel angry and hurt if you refuse to accept it . I must entreat you to do this , " etc. My letter to Mr. will best express my feelings on that subject . I transcribe nearly the whole of it . " You have long known my views on this ...
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... feeling that prompts the acknowledgment of a larger one . But here lies the objection which oppresses me : I have found voluntary instruction , on my part , to have been attended with great advantage , and I am appre- hensive , that in ...
... feeling that prompts the acknowledgment of a larger one . But here lies the objection which oppresses me : I have found voluntary instruction , on my part , to have been attended with great advantage , and I am appre- hensive , that in ...
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Popular passages
Page 106 - Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine ; continue in them : for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Page 96 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page 98 - And inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me...
Page 78 - For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Page 43 - God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have life everlasting.
Page 86 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Page 79 - As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
Page 96 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 77 - ... 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 : and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 78 - Thou shalt also decree a thing, And it shall be established unto thee : And the light shall shine upon thy ways.