The Friend, Volume 1Robert Smith The Friend., 1829 |
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... human intellected and overloaded style which has be- and dispassionate expositions of the great been so intensely and variously occupied . come fashionable , to the simplest yet pow - principles involved in the present contro- We can ...
... human intellected and overloaded style which has be- and dispassionate expositions of the great been so intensely and variously occupied . come fashionable , to the simplest yet pow - principles involved in the present contro- We can ...
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... human mild and benevolent profession , and they furnish a powerful incentive to emulate the example and to follow in the footsteps of our dignified predecessors . * His Within four years from the time that our ancestors landed in the ...
... human mild and benevolent profession , and they furnish a powerful incentive to emulate the example and to follow in the footsteps of our dignified predecessors . * His Within four years from the time that our ancestors landed in the ...
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... human society , and what they call- spirit of the age , being furnished with no guiding ed " the doctrine of pure ethics , " as the ne plus ultra rule , floated hither and thither amidst that vast sea of illumination - an age such as ...
... human society , and what they call- spirit of the age , being furnished with no guiding ed " the doctrine of pure ethics , " as the ne plus ultra rule , floated hither and thither amidst that vast sea of illumination - an age such as ...
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... humanity were scrupulously re spected , and thus a prouder title and a higher glory was gained for Pennsylvania ... human heart . Yet he whose mind is staid on Him , Who spake and it stood fast ; Can rest in peace ' mid ocean's din ...
... humanity were scrupulously re spected , and thus a prouder title and a higher glory was gained for Pennsylvania ... human heart . Yet he whose mind is staid on Him , Who spake and it stood fast ; Can rest in peace ' mid ocean's din ...
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... human beings under the influence been a considerable increase in the ministry of such circumstances must inevitably be ; among them -- that although our accounts the men drunken , the women dissolute ; that speak of many deficiencies ...
... human beings under the influence been a considerable increase in the ministry of such circumstances must inevitably be ; among them -- that although our accounts the men drunken , the women dissolute ; that speak of many deficiencies ...
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Page 83 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 174 - For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
Page 248 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 247 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Page 244 - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light ; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye ! Thou wanderer thro...
Page 94 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 53 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what «he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 4 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee. 3 There if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God. 4 There, like the nightingale, she pours Her solitary lays, Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Page 244 - On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love.
Page 141 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...