Remains, Volume 3J. Duncan and J. Cochran, 1837 |
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Page vii
... writings , and the effect which they are producing , -all these are motives which induce me to bring forward more of the thoughts of one who was long busily employed in preparing the future materials for a more enlarged investigation of ...
... writings , and the effect which they are producing , -all these are motives which induce me to bring forward more of the thoughts of one who was long busily employed in preparing the future materials for a more enlarged investigation of ...
Page viii
... writings will attract , have better objects in view than the excitements of fancy , and the gratifications of taste . Truth is their aim -truth of the highest order , and for the most important of ends : they seek after the more perfect ...
... writings will attract , have better objects in view than the excitements of fancy , and the gratifications of taste . Truth is their aim -truth of the highest order , and for the most important of ends : they seek after the more perfect ...
Page xvi
... writings will declare : that , through the mature stage of his existence ( and , strikingly , from the time of his devoting himself wholly to the pursuit of religion ) the consti- tutional tendency was wonderfully overruled and modified ...
... writings will declare : that , through the mature stage of his existence ( and , strikingly , from the time of his devoting himself wholly to the pursuit of religion ) the consti- tutional tendency was wonderfully overruled and modified ...
Page xvii
... writing in a like strain : " It is a natural effect of your bodily weakness , and the turn of your mind , that you are continually inclined to ' write bitter things against ' yourself . Hence , you are easily persuaded to believe him ...
... writing in a like strain : " It is a natural effect of your bodily weakness , and the turn of your mind , that you are continually inclined to ' write bitter things against ' yourself . Hence , you are easily persuaded to believe him ...
Page xx
... writing to Mr. Knox , at a period when the bodily malady was more than usually oppressive ) , * “ that the transition , implied in the removal of your late excellent friend , must , in the nature of things , prove to you most severely ...
... writing to Mr. Knox , at a period when the bodily malady was more than usually oppressive ) , * “ that the transition , implied in the removal of your late excellent friend , must , in the nature of things , prove to you most severely ...
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Page 348 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page lxxix - Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works,
Page 400 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean : from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Page 28 - For the Lord is a great God : and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth : and the strength of the hills is his also.
Page 156 - Christ and be found in him: not having my own righteousness, which is of the law ; but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith...
Page 365 - Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste . His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before ; Thine eye shall be instructed, and thine heart, Made pure, shall relish with divine delight 'Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
Page 368 - But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them ; and that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 338 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Page 378 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there ; if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Page 380 - Though the waters thereof rage and swell : and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.