Memoirs of ... Jonathan Edwards, with emendations by J. HawksleyJames Black, 1815 - 266 sider |
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... religion . He was a warm friend and ad- mirer of our Mr. Edwards , and , to the time of his death , greatly strengthened his hands in the work of the ministry . A more particular account of the life and character of this truly great man ...
... religion . He was a warm friend and ad- mirer of our Mr. Edwards , and , to the time of his death , greatly strengthened his hands in the work of the ministry . A more particular account of the life and character of this truly great man ...
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... religious exercises . Also , let me comfort myself , that it is the very nature of afflictions to make the heart better ; and if I am made better by them , what need I be concerned , however grievous they seem for the pre- sent ? Friday ...
... religious exercises . Also , let me comfort myself , that it is the very nature of afflictions to make the heart better ; and if I am made better by them , what need I be concerned , however grievous they seem for the pre- sent ? Friday ...
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... religion are difficult , and that many difficulties are sometimes to be gone through in the way of duty . Religion is the sweeter , and what is gained by labour is abundantly more precious ; as a woman loves her child the better for ...
... religion are difficult , and that many difficulties are sometimes to be gone through in the way of duty . Religion is the sweeter , and what is gained by labour is abundantly more precious ; as a woman loves her child the better for ...
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... religious conver- sation . I find by conversing on natural philosophy , I gain knowledge abundantly faster , and see the reasons of things much clearer , than in private study . Wherefore , resolved earnestly to seek at all times for ...
... religious conver- sation . I find by conversing on natural philosophy , I gain knowledge abundantly faster , and see the reasons of things much clearer , than in private study . Wherefore , resolved earnestly to seek at all times for ...
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... religion . But this I determine , as what is really evident from many parts of scripture , that to fallen man they have a greater ten- dency to hurt religion . Saturday , May 23. - How it comes about I know not ; but I have remarked it ...
... religion . But this I determine , as what is really evident from many parts of scripture , that to fallen man they have a greater ten- dency to hurt religion . Saturday , May 23. - How it comes about I know not ; but I have remarked it ...
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Side 116 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life...
Side 63 - In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: Even so Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight.
Side 135 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Side 26 - If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Side 106 - And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness : and the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought Us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Side 43 - From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty in choosing whom He would to eternal life, and rejecting whom He pleased, leaving them eternally to perish, and be everlastingly tormented in hell. It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.
Side 156 - Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God ; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free Spirit.
Side 65 - ... horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been, to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view, that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man, and his wonderful, great, full, pure and svve.et grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension.
Side 47 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind.
Side 54 - There was no part of creature holiness that I had so great a sense of its loveliness as humility, brokenness of heart and poverty of spirit; and there was nothing that I so earnestly longed for. My heart panted after this, to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God might be ALL, that I might become as a little child.