Sarah Martin, the Prison Visitor, of Great Yarmouth: With Extracts from Her Writings & Prison JournalsReligious tract society, 1799 - 144 pages |
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... hope , and joy , for I have been with my directory , the Bible , gathering from it " doctrine , reproof , and righteousness , " for my- self and the prisoners " to persuade men , " and , in thus looking for what God will work , I have ...
... hope , and joy , for I have been with my directory , the Bible , gathering from it " doctrine , reproof , and righteousness , " for my- self and the prisoners " to persuade men , " and , in thus looking for what God will work , I have ...
Page 26
... hope in vain ; and then how eagerly did I resort to the Bible , and feed on such assurances as these , " There shall no evil befall thee , neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling , " Psa . xci . 10 . The promises of that ...
... hope in vain ; and then how eagerly did I resort to the Bible , and feed on such assurances as these , " There shall no evil befall thee , neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling , " Psa . xci . 10 . The promises of that ...
Page 27
... hope that I would not forsake them , and punish the innocent with the guilty . Judging that these were less determined in having the room ready than they ought to have been , I did leave them a short time , and on again returning at the ...
... hope that I would not forsake them , and punish the innocent with the guilty . Judging that these were less determined in having the room ready than they ought to have been , I did leave them a short time , and on again returning at the ...
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... hope of destroying that egotistical appearance , which , in such a relation , after all my attempts against it , it still seems to bear . My hope is , that the former part of my life , so humiliating to look back upon , will be ...
... hope of destroying that egotistical appearance , which , in such a relation , after all my attempts against it , it still seems to bear . My hope is , that the former part of my life , so humiliating to look back upon , will be ...
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... hope and peace . Hence arises the boundless encouragement which it presents to others ; for the most humble indivi- dual , in any department of the providence of God , may build on the promises as firm as eternity : " Whatsoever ye ...
... hope and peace . Hence arises the boundless encouragement which it presents to others ; for the most humble indivi- dual , in any department of the providence of God , may build on the promises as firm as eternity : " Whatsoever ye ...
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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.