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... lead to that trust in Providence , that gives spiritual tran- quillity and spiritual support . Remember , that these desultory remarks are designed , first , to promote my duty to my Maker - secondly , my duty towards my husband and ...
... lead to that trust in Providence , that gives spiritual tran- quillity and spiritual support . Remember , that these desultory remarks are designed , first , to promote my duty to my Maker - secondly , my duty towards my husband and ...
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... lead the mind from this adoration and love of God , which is His due , and our truest enjoyment , it is necessary to retire with our friends and neighbours from hurry and busi- ness , that we may think of Him who delights to bless us ...
... lead the mind from this adoration and love of God , which is His due , and our truest enjoyment , it is necessary to retire with our friends and neighbours from hurry and busi- ness , that we may think of Him who delights to bless us ...
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... leads to think about dress , and such trifles , and when out of it , we fly to novels and scandal , or something of that kind , for entertainment . I have lately been given up a good deal to worldly passions ; by what I have felt I can ...
... leads to think about dress , and such trifles , and when out of it , we fly to novels and scandal , or something of that kind , for entertainment . I have lately been given up a good deal to worldly passions ; by what I have felt I can ...
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... leads to meanness , for those who will throw away a good deal are apt to mind giving a little . 11th . I am in a most idle mind , and inclined to have an indolent , dissipated day ; but I will try to overcome it , and see how far I can ...
... leads to meanness , for those who will throw away a good deal are apt to mind giving a little . 11th . I am in a most idle mind , and inclined to have an indolent , dissipated day ; but I will try to overcome it , and see how far I can ...
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... lead me to be an idle , flirting , worldly girl . I see what would be acting right , but I have neither activity nor perseverance in what I think right . I am like one setting out on a journey ; if I set out on the wrong road , and do ...
... lead me to be an idle , flirting , worldly girl . I see what would be acting right , but I have neither activity nor perseverance in what I think right . I am like one setting out on a journey ; if I set out on the wrong road , and do ...
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Page 637 - For the love of Christ constraineth us —because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.
Page 163 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Page 388 - This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Page 638 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Page 524 - Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Page 371 - When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him ? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only: 30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Page 635 - Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Page 163 - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 126 - I believed the promise was verified with us, " where two or three are met together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.
Page 134 - When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.