The Life: Experience and Travels, of John Colby, Preacher of the GospelN. Thurston & A. Watson, 1838 |
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... person under conviction must bid adieu to , or the Spirit of God will surely leave them . ) These things produced in me a great stupidity of mind ; yet I was not entirely without conviction . I recollect of joining a company of young ...
... person under conviction must bid adieu to , or the Spirit of God will surely leave them . ) These things produced in me a great stupidity of mind ; yet I was not entirely without conviction . I recollect of joining a company of young ...
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... person but myself ; I stood alone in this broad space . The vengeance of God was displayed , and such aw- ful thunder as I never heard before , was continually bursting and rattling over my head . It seemed as if those explosions began ...
... person but myself ; I stood alone in this broad space . The vengeance of God was displayed , and such aw- ful thunder as I never heard before , was continually bursting and rattling over my head . It seemed as if those explosions began ...
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... person . But a- bout this time , many of my brethren and sisters in the Lord , began to have a feeling sense of the weight I felt on my mind , and some of them came and told me it was revealed to them that the Lord was calling me to ...
... person . But a- bout this time , many of my brethren and sisters in the Lord , began to have a feeling sense of the weight I felt on my mind , and some of them came and told me it was revealed to them that the Lord was calling me to ...
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... person . And I think it was the great- est cross I had ever taken up . It appeared to me as if life and death were set before me and I could have my choice , and must choose then . - Under this discovery I mentally looked to the Lord ...
... person . And I think it was the great- est cross I had ever taken up . It appeared to me as if life and death were set before me and I could have my choice , and must choose then . - Under this discovery I mentally looked to the Lord ...
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... person . After I got home , my father ask- ed me the occasion of my not finishing my sermon ; for , said he , I thought you had laid your work out very well . I made him little or no answer , but left the house and retired to the woods ...
... person . After I got home , my father ask- ed me the occasion of my not finishing my sermon ; for , said he , I thought you had laid your work out very well . I made him little or no answer , but left the house and retired to the woods ...
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Page 108 - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Page 18 - And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? 1 know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
Page 104 - But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Page 120 - And I saw another Angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting .gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come : and 494 FALL OF BABYLON.
Page 120 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come : and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Page 57 - Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, tasted death "for every man.
Page 22 - O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people.
Page 17 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 144 - Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Page 137 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.