The Remarkable Conversion and Christian Experience of Mary Hurll: With Meditations on Some Passages of the Scripture, as Taken from Her Own Mouth. In Two Parts

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John Marshall, 1719 - 132 pages
 

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Page 118 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made, And all those things have been, saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, Even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, And trembleth at my word.
Page 106 - And the Lord God faid, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now left he put forth his hand and take alfo of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 73 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law to do them,
Page 4 - ESHCOL; A CLUSTER OF THE FRUIT OF CANAAN, BROUGHT TO THE BORDERS FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE SAINTS TRAVELLING THITHERWARD, WITH THEIR FACES...
Page 72 - Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's good pleafure to give you the kingdom,' meaning the kingdom of heaven, Luke xii.
Page 72 - Strait is the way and narrow is the gate that leads to life and few there be that go in thereat. " There is a fatuous idea that the reliance of Anglo-Saxon civilization is in the color of its skin. Is that not a terrible mistake? De-civilization can go on under white skin. The brutish and the ineffectual are not all black. "This is a white man's country...
Page 119 - No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee; but when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold thy time was a time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; yea, and I sware unto thee, and entered into covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine.
Page 111 - The gospel is strict," was her reply ; " the cutting off a right hand, or the plucking out of a right eye, though only used as metaphors and illustrations, is surely more strict than anything I have said. The standard of religion should be always kept high : the very best of us are always sure to pull it down a good many pegs in our practice, but how much lower is the practice of those who fix a lower...
Page 42 - Christian Messenger. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, (Jer. iii. 13.) and return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon thee; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isaiah Iv. 7.) In reply to these words, the captive uttered such terrible things as I forbear to repeat. So the Christian messenger forbore at that time to say more to him ; but taking the hand of Nazareenee, he led him back towards the way of salvation. Now when the pilgrim...
Page 108 - ... therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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