Select Pieces, from the Practical and Devotional Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop HallGeorge Virtue, 1838 - 527 pages |
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... thunder 331 Whetting of a scythe 347 Winnowing of corn 370 Words and deeds Sparks flying upward Spider and her web in the window Spiritual desires 337 Workers of iniquity 324 Worldly friendship 308 Worldly sorrow 415 Youth and age CONTENTS.
... thunder 331 Whetting of a scythe 347 Winnowing of corn 370 Words and deeds Sparks flying upward Spider and her web in the window Spiritual desires 337 Workers of iniquity 324 Worldly friendship 308 Worldly sorrow 415 Youth and age CONTENTS.
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... desires to be right with thee , whatever my failings may have been ; and I know what value thou puttest upon those sin- cere desires , notwithstanding all the intermix- tures of our miserable infirmities . These I penitently bewail to ...
... desires to be right with thee , whatever my failings may have been ; and I know what value thou puttest upon those sin- cere desires , notwithstanding all the intermix- tures of our miserable infirmities . These I penitently bewail to ...
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... such , but that holier men have suffered more . Dost thou not hear the great precedent of patience crying out from his dunghill , Oh that my grief 6 THE BALM OF GILEAD . Good desires and endeavours titude of heathens.
... such , but that holier men have suffered more . Dost thou not hear the great precedent of patience crying out from his dunghill , Oh that my grief 6 THE BALM OF GILEAD . Good desires and endeavours titude of heathens.
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... thou who formerly delightedst in thy sin , now ab- horrest it , and thyself for it ; and art yet desirous of more grief , and even for being transported into it ! Let not the enemy of thy soul , who desires 20 THE BALM OF GILEAD . meals.
... thou who formerly delightedst in thy sin , now ab- horrest it , and thyself for it ; and art yet desirous of more grief , and even for being transported into it ! Let not the enemy of thy soul , who desires 20 THE BALM OF GILEAD . meals.
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Joseph Hall. Let not the enemy of thy soul , who desires nothing more than to make thee perfectly miserable , win so much of thee , as to render thee dissatisfied with the measure of that penitence which is accepted of thy God . Rather ...
Joseph Hall. Let not the enemy of thy soul , who desires nothing more than to make thee perfectly miserable , win so much of thee , as to render thee dissatisfied with the measure of that penitence which is accepted of thy God . Rather ...
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Page 40 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 471 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Page 203 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 143 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 246 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 192 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 189 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 460 - Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Page 205 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 205 - Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus ; that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.