Death Bed Scenes, Or, the Christian's Companion, on Entering the Dark Valley. By the Author of the Evangelical Rambler [i.e. Timothy East]. |
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... thing to die . BLAIR . " IT is appointed unto men once to die . " This is a fact , which the experience of all ages attests ; and ere long it will receive additional confirmation , from our own . Death , by a figure of speech is ...
... thing to die . BLAIR . " IT is appointed unto men once to die . " This is a fact , which the experience of all ages attests ; and ere long it will receive additional confirmation , from our own . Death , by a figure of speech is ...
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... thing around us bears the stamp of mortality , and evinces symptoms of decay . And does not man ? It is true , on some occa- sions , the intellect displays more than an ordinary degree of strength and acuteness , and the passions glow ...
... thing around us bears the stamp of mortality , and evinces symptoms of decay . And does not man ? It is true , on some occa- sions , the intellect displays more than an ordinary degree of strength and acuteness , and the passions glow ...
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... things of death , which is the king of terrors to the natural man . They call it a release from pain and sin ; a Messenger of peace , the desired hour , and the happy moment . All this is spoken while they behold it with an eye of faith ...
... things of death , which is the king of terrors to the natural man . They call it a release from pain and sin ; a Messenger of peace , the desired hour , and the happy moment . All this is spoken while they behold it with an eye of faith ...
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... things to our imagination , by sensible objects , with which we are continually con- versant . Let us begin then with those descriptions of heaven , which are borrowed from sensible objects , and by these steps ascend to a more clear ...
... things to our imagination , by sensible objects , with which we are continually con- versant . Let us begin then with those descriptions of heaven , which are borrowed from sensible objects , and by these steps ascend to a more clear ...
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... things which God hath prepared for them ' that love him . " * - On entering this world of purity - of blessed- ness and of glory , the human soul , having been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ , and renewed by the Eternal Spirit ...
... things which God hath prepared for them ' that love him . " * - On entering this world of purity - of blessed- ness and of glory , the human soul , having been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ , and renewed by the Eternal Spirit ...
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Page xxiii - Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
Page l - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Page 83 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page xli - For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Page xii - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Page 135 - My soul shall make her boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears.
Page xl - All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Page 111 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Page xxxviii - And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
Page xxxix - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.