The Life of the Late Rev. and Learned Dr. Cotton Mather, of Boston, New EnglandAmerican Sunday School Union. I. Ashmead, Printer, 1827 - 115 Seiten |
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... never read a life of stricter piety , of warmer zeal for God , of greater diligence in duty , and more generous love to men , than appears in this book , and I am still of the same mind . My worthy friend who hath abridged it , hath in ...
... never read a life of stricter piety , of warmer zeal for God , of greater diligence in duty , and more generous love to men , than appears in this book , and I am still of the same mind . My worthy friend who hath abridged it , hath in ...
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... never left it off again as long as he lived . While he was a school boy , he laboured to promote the exercise of prayer amongst his school - fel- lows , not only by exhorting them to it , but composing some forms of prayer for their use ...
... never left it off again as long as he lived . While he was a school boy , he laboured to promote the exercise of prayer amongst his school - fel- lows , not only by exhorting them to it , but composing some forms of prayer for their use ...
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... never so vile , so that good men cannot but abhor him , yet if this man becomes a new creature , they will most heartily embrace him , and take him , as it were , into their bo- som , notwithstanding his former vileness . This is an ...
... never so vile , so that good men cannot but abhor him , yet if this man becomes a new creature , they will most heartily embrace him , and take him , as it were , into their bo- som , notwithstanding his former vileness . This is an ...
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... never to be in any company where it would be proper for one so young to bear a part in the conversation , but , if possible , he would do them some good . And remarkably was that promise fulfilled to him , " To him that has , shall more ...
... never to be in any company where it would be proper for one so young to bear a part in the conversation , but , if possible , he would do them some good . And remarkably was that promise fulfilled to him , " To him that has , shall more ...
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... never “ fainted in the day of adversity : " but he still believed it was " in faithfulness that God afflicted him . " He considered every calamity as a talent that was capable of being improved to the glory of Christ ; as particularly ...
... never “ fainted in the day of adversity : " but he still believed it was " in faithfulness that God afflicted him . " He considered every calamity as a talent that was capable of being improved to the glory of Christ ; as particularly ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 98 - How amiable are thy tabernacles,- O Lord of hosts ! " My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth, for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and, my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Seite 101 - And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.
Seite 123 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength...
Seite 133 - No cloud those blissful regions know, For ever bright and fair ! For sin, the source of mortal woe, Can never enter there.
Seite 133 - Prepare us, Lord, by grace divine, For Thy bright courts on high ; Then bid our spirits rise, and join The chorus of the sky.
Seite 112 - These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile'; for they are without fault before the throne of God.
Seite 51 - More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned; and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Seite 93 - ... deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world," and yet, after all, to acknowledge, that it is " not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saves us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he has shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Seite 50 - Friday. What special subjects of affliction, and objects of compassion, may I take under my particular care, and what shall I do for them?
Seite 109 - And a few hours before he died, he said, " Now I have nothing more to do here- : My will is entirely swallowed up in the will of GOD.