This I know not how to express otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far... Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 761835Full view - About this book
| Isaac Amada Cornelison - Conversion - 1911 - 304 pages
...far from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ and wrapped and swallowed up in God. The sense of divine things would often, of a sudden, kindle...sweet burning in my heart, an ardor of soul, that I knew not how to express. . . . The appearance of everything was altered; there seemed to be, as it... | |
| Isaac Amada Cornelison - Conversion - 1911 - 304 pages
...abstraction of soul from all the concerns of the world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas, or imaginations, of being alone in the mountains or some...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ and wrapped and swallowed up in God. The sense of divine things would often, of a sudden, kindle up, as... | |
| Woodbridge Riley - Philosophy, American - 1915 - 424 pages
...spirit to part with all things in the world; then, a kind of vision or certain fixed ideas and images of being alone in the mountains or some solitary wilderness far from all mankind; finally, a thought of being wrapt up in God in heaven, being, as it were, swallowed up in Him forever.... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...calm, sweet Abstraction of Soul from all the Concerns of this World; and a kind of Vision, or fix'd Ideas and Imaginations, of being alone in the Mountains,...Sense I had of divine Things, would often of a sudden, as it were, kindle up a sweet burning in my Heart; an ardor of Soul, that I know not how to express.... | |
| Vicente J. Bernal - American poetry - 1916 - 868 pages
...kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in die mountains, or some solitory wilderness, far from all mankind, sweetly conversing...kindle up, as it were, a sweet burning in my heart ; an ardour of soul, that I know not how to express. " Not long after I first began to experience these... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...calm, sweet Abstraction of Soul from all the Concerns of this World; and a kind of Vision, or fix'd Ideas and Imaginations, of being alone in the Mountains,...Sense I had of divine Things, would often of a sudden, as it were, kindle up a sweet burning in my Heart; an ardor of Soul, that I know not how to express.... | |
| Robert Scott, George William Gilmore - Devotional literature - 1916 - 276 pages
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision ... of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ and rapt and swallowed up in God." 2>rbotional Classics "VTe read of such instances of the fruits of prayer,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards - American literature - 1920 - 424 pages
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...an ardor of soul, that I know not how to express. Not long after I began to experience these things, I gave an account to my father of some things that... | |
| 1889 - 960 pages
...abstraction of soul from all the concerns of thi* world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains...and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine thinjj> would often of a sudden kindle up, as ft were, a sweet burning in my heart ; an ardor of soul... | |
| Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed obert Not long after I began to experience these things, I gave an account to my father of some things that... | |
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