Memoirs of the Life of the Late Mrs. Catharine Cappe

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Wells and Lilly, 1824 - 408 sider

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Side 142 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Side 313 - fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man...
Side 48 - Long, as to him who works for debt, the day; Long as the night to her whose love's away; Long as the year's dull circle seems to run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one: So slow th...
Side 146 - Whosoever shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father.
Side 25 - The Lord is my strength and my song, and he is become my salvation; he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Side 406 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : — Yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors ; and their works do follow them,
Side 395 - Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of Thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain ; he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope : truly my hope is even in Thee.
Side 103 - Sunday, alternately to catechising the children of the parish and to expounding the Bible to the boys of a large school which was at that time kept in the village. The number of...
Side 104 - Lindsey has been frequently recognized in the streets of London by some of his former Sunday pupils, who gratefully acknowledged their obligations to him. After evening service, Mr. Lindsey received different classes of young men and women, on alternate Sundays, in his study, for the purpose of instruction; and • Mrs. Lindsey in like manner, in another apartment, had two classes of children, boys and girls, alternately.
Side 48 - So slow th' unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul ; That keep me from myself; and still delay Life's instant business to a future day : That task, which as we follow, or despise, The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise : Which done, the poorest can no wants endure ; And which not done, the richest must be poor.

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