The Posthumous Works of the Late Learned and Reverend Isaac Watts, D.D.: In Two Volumes. Compiled from Papers in Possession of His Immediate Successors:T. Becket, Adelphi, Strand; and J. Bew, Pater-Noster Row., 1779 - 306 pages |
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... these extravagancies of theirs may be the occafion of fome good in the event , if they do not get too much head . I am , with great affection and esteem , Sir , your very faithful fervant , EDM . LONDON . LE T- LETTER IV . GOOD SIR ...
... these extravagancies of theirs may be the occafion of fome good in the event , if they do not get too much head . I am , with great affection and esteem , Sir , your very faithful fervant , EDM . LONDON . LE T- LETTER IV . GOOD SIR ...
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... These are admirably fet before me in your letters , & c . But , O Sir , in what a glaring light has God fet me ! How has he encompaffed me with innumerable bleffings , health , affluence , honour , & c . ! And now to be taken from the ...
... These are admirably fet before me in your letters , & c . But , O Sir , in what a glaring light has God fet me ! How has he encompaffed me with innumerable bleffings , health , affluence , honour , & c . ! And now to be taken from the ...
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... these parts , yet I am ready to hope I might have a comfortable fettle- ment amongst them , and a fair prospect of con- fiderable usefulness , with the bleffing of God , attending my labours . They are , indeed , a peo- ple of a very ...
... these parts , yet I am ready to hope I might have a comfortable fettle- ment amongst them , and a fair prospect of con- fiderable usefulness , with the bleffing of God , attending my labours . They are , indeed , a peo- ple of a very ...
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... these parts , that my defigns for education are as likely to fucceed as any others which I can form for the fervice of the church , fince my intimate acquaintance with Mr. Jennings's method may give me advantages above others who are ...
... these parts , that my defigns for education are as likely to fucceed as any others which I can form for the fervice of the church , fince my intimate acquaintance with Mr. Jennings's method may give me advantages above others who are ...
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... these four years , to have made some confiderable improvements in my academi- cal scheme , and to be in many other refpects abun- dantly fitter for public fervice than I now am . If I go to Northampton , I may indeed spare a few hours ...
... these four years , to have made some confiderable improvements in my academi- cal scheme , and to be in many other refpects abun- dantly fitter for public fervice than I now am . If I go to Northampton , I may indeed spare a few hours ...
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Page 274 - And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Page 280 - For our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While 'we look not at the things which are feen, but at the things which are not feen; for the things which are feen, are temporal ; but the things which are not feen, are eternal, 2 Cor.
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