Death Bed Scenes, Or, the Christian's Companion, on Entering the Dark Valley. By the Author of the Evangelical Rambler [i.e. Timothy East].Francis Westley, 1825 - 360 pages |
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... . His suffer- ings became so great during the last few weeks of his life , as to allow him few moments of com- parative ease ; and therefore the sayings that he uttered were more like the sayings of a martyr , DR . SIMPSON . 59.
... . His suffer- ings became so great during the last few weeks of his life , as to allow him few moments of com- parative ease ; and therefore the sayings that he uttered were more like the sayings of a martyr , DR . SIMPSON . 59.
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... became more exposed to temptation , his impressions , like the morning cloud , and early dew passed away , disappointing those early hopes , which the great seriousness of his mind , had excited in the breast of his pious friends . On ...
... became more exposed to temptation , his impressions , like the morning cloud , and early dew passed away , disappointing those early hopes , which the great seriousness of his mind , had excited in the breast of his pious friends . On ...
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... became still brighter . One of his friends remarked , that he seemed to have pierced the veil ; and as visions of the heavenly state appeared before him , he longed to depart and take possession of it . When he could not speak aloud ...
... became still brighter . One of his friends remarked , that he seemed to have pierced the veil ; and as visions of the heavenly state appeared before him , he longed to depart and take possession of it . When he could not speak aloud ...
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... became the means of restraining him from a course of open profligacy : yet he reached the seventeenth year of his life , before he began to feel the power of religion . At this period he resided with Mr. and Mrs. Labron , at Leeds , in ...
... became the means of restraining him from a course of open profligacy : yet he reached the seventeenth year of his life , before he began to feel the power of religion . At this period he resided with Mr. and Mrs. Labron , at Leeds , in ...
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... became a burden too heavy for me to bear . My whole life seemed to have been one uninterrupted scene of rebellion against God . I went to the throne of grace , and , in the name of Jesus Christ , prayed earnestly for mercy ; but the ...
... became a burden too heavy for me to bear . My whole life seemed to have been one uninterrupted scene of rebellion against God . I went to the throne of grace , and , in the name of Jesus Christ , prayed earnestly for mercy ; but the ...
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Page xxiii - Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
Page l - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Page 83 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page xli - For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Page xii - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Page 135 - My soul shall make her boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears.
Page xl - All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Page 111 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Page xxxviii - And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
Page xxxix - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.