Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn: Who Died at Newport, Rhodeisland, on the Second Day of August, 1796, in the Eighty Third Year of Her Age |
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... school a little way off , came to me , and told me that she only waited for a fair wind to go to Carolina ; and , if it would fuit me , I fhould have her chamber and fchollars ; which I joyfully accepted . Thus the widow's God ...
... school a little way off , came to me , and told me that she only waited for a fair wind to go to Carolina ; and , if it would fuit me , I fhould have her chamber and fchollars ; which I joyfully accepted . Thus the widow's God ...
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... school in credible families , where I had a profpect of wanting for nothing of the neceffa- ries of this life . But I could not bear the thought of going from the means of grace , and other precious privileges , which I then enjoy- ed ...
... school in credible families , where I had a profpect of wanting for nothing of the neceffa- ries of this life . But I could not bear the thought of going from the means of grace , and other precious privileges , which I then enjoy- ed ...
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... school again in May , 1744. In which business fhe continued about thirty years , till her eyefight and bodily ftrength failed , fo that he was o- bliged to give it up . She was , during this whole time , attended with bodily weakness ...
... school again in May , 1744. In which business fhe continued about thirty years , till her eyefight and bodily ftrength failed , fo that he was o- bliged to give it up . She was , during this whole time , attended with bodily weakness ...
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... school , retained a love and esteem for her in the future part of their life , and numbers of them , how many cannot be now known , have never loft the ferious impref fions , which they received by her inftruction and admonitions ; but ...
... school , retained a love and esteem for her in the future part of their life , and numbers of them , how many cannot be now known , have never loft the ferious impref fions , which they received by her inftruction and admonitions ; but ...
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... schools and to their pupils , were they tranfcribed ; and were they not too lengthy to be inferted here . A FEW months after Mrs. Ofborn began to keep fchool the fecond time , her only fon , Sam- uel Wheaten , died , being near twelve ...
... schools and to their pupils , were they tranfcribed ; and were they not too lengthy to be inferted here . A FEW months after Mrs. Ofborn began to keep fchool the fecond time , her only fon , Sam- uel Wheaten , died , being near twelve ...
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Page 30 - God : for a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath 1 hid my face from thee for a moment ; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 14 - But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; who will render to every man according to his deeds...
Page 18 - There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, but will, with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Page 235 - Shield : the Lord will give grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Page 30 - For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Page 115 - Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world.
Page 136 - I would ** do good, evil is prefent with me : for I delight in the " law of God after the inward man. But I fee another *' law in my members, warring againft the law of my " mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, * which is in my members.
Page 40 - But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the fons of God, even to them that believe on his name...
Page 163 - For the mountains fhall depart, . and the hills be removed, but my kindnefs fhall not depart • from thee, neither fhall the covenant of my peace be removed, faith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.