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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Page ix
... sometimes called sleep in the Old Testa- ment ; yet that chiefly regarded the silence and darkness , and inactivity of that state whereas in the New Testament it is called sleep , to denote that there is an awaking time . The ancient ...
... sometimes called sleep in the Old Testa- ment ; yet that chiefly regarded the silence and darkness , and inactivity of that state whereas in the New Testament it is called sleep , to denote that there is an awaking time . The ancient ...
Page xiii
... Sometimes we read of treasures which moth cannot corrupt , nor thieves break through and steal ; ' * of a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; ' and of an inheri- tance , incorruptible , undefiled and which fadeth not away ...
... Sometimes we read of treasures which moth cannot corrupt , nor thieves break through and steal ; ' * of a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; ' and of an inheri- tance , incorruptible , undefiled and which fadeth not away ...
Page xxiii
... sometimes when the overpowering charm of a supernatural mani- festation absorbs your spirit , the language of the Poet becomes an appropriate vehicle for the utterance of your ardent and intense desires " To Jesus , the source of my joy ...
... sometimes when the overpowering charm of a supernatural mani- festation absorbs your spirit , the language of the Poet becomes an appropriate vehicle for the utterance of your ardent and intense desires " To Jesus , the source of my joy ...
Page xxxiv
... sometimes acting apart , aud raised in sublime meditation of God , or in a fixed vision of his blissful face , with an act of secret adoration , while their intellectual powers are almost lost in sweet amazement : sometimes they are ...
... sometimes acting apart , aud raised in sublime meditation of God , or in a fixed vision of his blissful face , with an act of secret adoration , while their intellectual powers are almost lost in sweet amazement : sometimes they are ...
Page xxxvi
... Sometimes we may entertain our holy curiosity there , and find millions of new discoveries of divine power and divine contriv- ance in those unknown regions ; and bring back from thence new lectures of divine wisdom , or tidings of the ...
... Sometimes we may entertain our holy curiosity there , and find millions of new discoveries of divine power and divine contriv- ance in those unknown regions ; and bring back from thence new lectures of divine wisdom , or tidings of 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.