Memoir of William A. Porter: A. M., with Selections from His WritingsNot published., 1832 - 115 pages |
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... spirits of good men possess some knowledge , after their departure , of what is done here by their former associates . If any such knowledge is allowed them , we must suppose it is accompanied by a lively interest in our condition and ...
... spirits of good men possess some knowledge , after their departure , of what is done here by their former associates . If any such knowledge is allowed them , we must suppose it is accompanied by a lively interest in our condition and ...
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... spirits must look with kind regard on us , who remain upon this scene of troubled and precarious existence - most of all must we be thus looked upon by those who have just escaped from it . But our sentiments respecting themselves must ...
... spirits must look with kind regard on us , who remain upon this scene of troubled and precarious existence - most of all must we be thus looked upon by those who have just escaped from it . But our sentiments respecting themselves must ...
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... Spirit of God may de- scend and strike out a heavenly note from the chord now strung in the young heart , and to remain un- broken even when every other part has become entirely insensible ! " In the fall of 1821 , he became a member of ...
... Spirit of God may de- scend and strike out a heavenly note from the chord now strung in the young heart , and to remain un- broken even when every other part has become entirely insensible ! " In the fall of 1821 , he became a member of ...
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... spirits , especially when his health suffered ; and during the summer in which his theological studies were sus- pended , he is stated by his father to have been in a state of deep depression . Such a state of mind often leads men to ...
... spirits , especially when his health suffered ; and during the summer in which his theological studies were sus- pended , he is stated by his father to have been in a state of deep depression . Such a state of mind often leads men to ...
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... spirits ? I pray God it may be so ! I pray God we may die in faith ! that , when we are absent from the body , we may be present with the Lord ! " He felt , also , what he much dwelt upon in the same discourse , " precious consolations ...
... spirits ? I pray God it may be so ! I pray God we may die in faith ! that , when we are absent from the body , we may be present with the Lord ! " He felt , also , what he much dwelt upon in the same discourse , " precious consolations ...
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Page 86 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground, Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 64 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Page 39 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Page 31 - THERE is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
Page 51 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 85 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 84 - O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me ! If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Page 39 - Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Page 101 - to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.
Page 31 - The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day ; And there may I, as vile as he, Wash all my sins away.