The Traveller; Or, Meditations on Various Subjects: Written on Board a Man of War. To which is Added, Converse with the World Unseen

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E. Torrey and W. Seaver, 1812 - 372 pages
 

Contents

The promises a divine treasure
99
The sacred assurance
112
On pumping the ship
114
On the anchor of the ship 115
115
The sails
117
On the compass and helm 1 19
119
Provisions and stores
121
Ballast
124
The more we see of sin the more we should hate sin
125
Knowing a sin to be committed
126
A man of war
128
The difference between the righteous and the guilty
132
The judgment of swearers according to equity
135
Thinking on a dead friend
137
The union between Christ and believers
139
Imperfect attainments
140
On kings allowance
142
On the blowing up of a shift
143
Some slain by mercies as well as by judgments
146
On a fine fleet
148
Setting sail
150
Time to be redeemed
151
In view of an engagement
152
On our Lord displaying his divinity on the sea 153
153
A memorandum for him that goes abroad
156
How the Sabbath or Lords day is to be sanc tified
159
Anchoring off an enemys coast
161
35 Coasting on a country of another religion
163
The masts
165
Upon one being put under confinement abroad
167
The prophets description of the wicked
169
On the patience of God with sinners
170
The company of the wicked
180
Our sorrow for sin too contracted
188
A ship falling foul of another
202
On sailing near different nations
220
On reaching a port after being long at sea
222
On a man that died by liquor
223
The earth a globe
225
On ships mistaking one another
226
What we ought to remember
229
The patience of God very great
230
Delusion
231
On seeing slaves at work
232
Quarantine
234
The needle
236
In a Romancatholic church
239
In a hot climate
242
On putting out a light
259
On dividing the spoil
260
A daily catechism for seamen
262
Aproper inspection
263
The birthday
272
On being driven back to the harbor
279
On a popish procession to prevent the return
293
Under the Meridian the sun and moon high
299
Birthday
306
Great love in God that we may love God
309
Providence to be approved of
315
Bright views and bold language above
317
Declining years
319
The expected change
322
Arguments for faith in God
324
The traveller at home
326
CONVERSE WITH THE WORLD UNSEEN PAGE
327
Future glory
329
On want of divine love
331
We grope in the dark while here below
332
All things work for good to the saints
334
A soul converted joy among the angels
335
Earth not our home
336
We should live above the world
337
Joy awaits the saints
338
The joy of saints unseen
339
Heaven the best inheritance
340
Enemies overthrown
341
Exercise of the blessed
343
Complaints of spiritual languor
344
Preparation for heaven
346
The eternal Sabbath
347
Indifference to the world
349
The disembodied saint
350
A check for not meditating on divine things
359
Approbation of trying providences
360
Faiths triumph over affliction
361
A sweet prospect of future bliss
362
The ravishing employment of saints in glory
363
A reprehension for decay in grace
364
The noble indifference
365
No happiness below
366
God a neverfailing portion
367
The best employment
368
Divine wisdom in our various lots
369
The mind too little on heaven
370
The duty of the aged saint
371
Afflictions will attend us to our last
372

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Page 128 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 269 - Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Page 18 - Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud; and he shall hear my voice.
Page 155 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page 105 - The hour is coming when all that are in their graves shall hear (he voice of the Son of Man, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.
Page 140 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 108 - For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant ; even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters : I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Page 269 - Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Page 109 - But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces : for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
Page 229 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...

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