The Infant's Progress: From the Valley of Destruction to Everlasting GloryA. Claxton, 1828 |
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... heard any one of their neighbours reading a good book , or speaking a word for God , they would shut their ears and run away ; choosing rather to wallow in the mire with the swine in the street , than to give their hearts to any good ...
... heard any one of their neighbours reading a good book , or speaking a word for God , they would shut their ears and run away ; choosing rather to wallow in the mire with the swine in the street , than to give their hearts to any good ...
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... heard Inbred - Sin pleading thus with the children : " Are you not very young , and will it not be many years before you become old , and when you are old will it not be time enough to think of dying ? " 66 But many children die ...
... heard Inbred - Sin pleading thus with the children : " Are you not very young , and will it not be many years before you become old , and when you are old will it not be time enough to think of dying ? " 66 But many children die ...
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... heard , saying , Shall mortal man be more just than God ? shall a man be more pure than his Maker ? Behold , he put no trust in his servants : and his angels he charged with folly : how much less in them that dwell in houses of 16 ...
... heard , saying , Shall mortal man be more just than God ? shall a man be more pure than his Maker ? Behold , he put no trust in his servants : and his angels he charged with folly : how much less in them that dwell in houses of 16 ...
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... heard it said , and have also read in my book , that we are all born in sin ; and that , unless our nature is changed , and a right spirit renewed within us , we must all surely perish . It appears , then , that the youngest among us ...
... heard it said , and have also read in my book , that we are all born in sin ; and that , unless our nature is changed , and a right spirit renewed within us , we must all surely perish . It appears , then , that the youngest among us ...
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... heard then that Evangelist proceeded to pronounce certain dreadful threatenings in the ear of Humble Mind ; under the terrors of which he broke into tears and cries , saying , “ Sir , I confess that I have done amiss , and would do ...
... heard then that Evangelist proceeded to pronounce certain dreadful threatenings in the ear of Humble Mind ; under the terrors of which he broke into tears and cries , saying , “ Sir , I confess that I have done amiss , and would do ...
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Page 162 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Page 131 - Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
Page 31 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 242 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Page 107 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 174 - And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord : that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
Page 178 - In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Page 195 - I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of : but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Page 2 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 19 - For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.