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... children , together with some of his most valued friends , and favourite parishioners , to the reader . Mr Fenton , at the period with which this history commences , was about fifty - nine years of age . He was the only son of a highly ...
... children , together with some of his most valued friends , and favourite parishioners , to the reader . Mr Fenton , at the period with which this history commences , was about fifty - nine years of age . He was the only son of a highly ...
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... child of great promise . It forms no part of the present history to make the reader minutely ac- quainted with the various events of Mr Fenton's life previous to his settlement in the living of Enfield.— Nothing more , therefore , shall ...
... child of great promise . It forms no part of the present history to make the reader minutely ac- quainted with the various events of Mr Fenton's life previous to his settlement in the living of Enfield.— Nothing more , therefore , shall ...
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... children ; and , if , in that description , the personal charms of his engaging daughter have been mentioned , the reader may feel assured , that this has not been done unduly to prepossess him in her favour , but to show how pos- sible ...
... children ; and , if , in that description , the personal charms of his engaging daughter have been mentioned , the reader may feel assured , that this has not been done unduly to prepossess him in her favour , but to show how pos- sible ...
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... child . In addition to his paternal inheritance , Mr F. had received , with his wife ( an Enfield lady ) , property worth three hundred pounds a - year ; so that , altoge- ther , he found himself in possession of an income of about ...
... child . In addition to his paternal inheritance , Mr F. had received , with his wife ( an Enfield lady ) , property worth three hundred pounds a - year ; so that , altoge- ther , he found himself in possession of an income of about ...
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... children , a son and a daughter , both very young at the time of their mother's death . The eldest of these ( Donald ) was now about thirteen years old ; the other ( Jessie ) , about eleven . At his wife's death , Eugenius had sent for ...
... children , a son and a daughter , both very young at the time of their mother's death . The eldest of these ( Donald ) was now about thirteen years old ; the other ( Jessie ) , about eleven . At his wife's death , Eugenius had sent for ...
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Page 15 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 6 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 103 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Page 143 - by grace we are saved through faith ; and that not of ourselves ; it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast?
Page 83 - They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 19 - I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Page ii - This is a. faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.
Page 86 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 188 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 137 - For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.