The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...A. Weir & A. M'Lean, 1770 |
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... owning with fome fuccefs , my labours of a like nature , together with the defire and inclination ( ftirred up in * A 2 + Dr. Manton . › Navigation Spi- ritualized . me , I hope , by the Spirit of the The Epistle Dedicatory 3.
... owning with fome fuccefs , my labours of a like nature , together with the defire and inclination ( ftirred up in * A 2 + Dr. Manton . › Navigation Spi- ritualized . me , I hope , by the Spirit of the The Epistle Dedicatory 3.
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... hope the event will manifeft to be a call from God to this work . I confess I met with fome difcouragement in my first attempt , from my unacquaintednefs with rural affairs ; and because I was to travel in a path ( to me ) untrodden ...
... hope the event will manifeft to be a call from God to this work . I confess I met with fome difcouragement in my first attempt , from my unacquaintednefs with rural affairs ; and because I was to travel in a path ( to me ) untrodden ...
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... hope , that it was the call of God in- deed , which put me upon these endeavours ! O Sirs ! What an excellent thing would it be for you , to make fuch holy improvements of all these earthly objects which daily occur to your fenfes , and ...
... hope , that it was the call of God in- deed , which put me upon these endeavours ! O Sirs ! What an excellent thing would it be for you , to make fuch holy improvements of all these earthly objects which daily occur to your fenfes , and ...
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... hope ) both pertinent and clofe . The reflections ferious , and fuch ( as I hope ) your confciences will faithfully improve . I have shut up every chapter with a Poem , an innocent bait to catch the reader's foul . That of Herbert is ...
... hope ) both pertinent and clofe . The reflections ferious , and fuch ( as I hope ) your confciences will faithfully improve . I have shut up every chapter with a Poem , an innocent bait to catch the reader's foul . That of Herbert is ...
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... hope none will envy me these inno- cent delights , which I made out of my lonely walks , whereby the Lord fweetened my folitudes there . It is like thou wilt find some paffages here , that are harmlefly pleasant ; yet , Iaffure thee , I ...
... hope none will envy me these inno- cent delights , which I made out of my lonely walks , whereby the Lord fweetened my folitudes there . It is like thou wilt find some paffages here , that are harmlefly pleasant ; yet , Iaffure thee , I ...
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Page 19 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 107 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 449 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 40 - Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD : for great is the glory of the LORD.
Page 23 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 373 - To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 450 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 393 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Page 74 - Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Page 425 - For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.