The Life, Character, and Literary Labours of Samuel Drew, A. M.Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834 - 530 pages |
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... hope ' and to enforce , by powerful appeals to the understanding and the conscience , those practical results which should follow from such premises - is a work of incalculable utility ; and he who per- forms it successfully , presents ...
... hope ' and to enforce , by powerful appeals to the understanding and the conscience , those practical results which should follow from such premises - is a work of incalculable utility ; and he who per- forms it successfully , presents ...
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... hope of success , our circumstances should not be less favourable than those in which the object of our emulation was placed . The lives , therefore , of those individuals who , from a condition common to the bulk of mankind ...
... hope of success , our circumstances should not be less favourable than those in which the object of our emulation was placed . The lives , therefore , of those individuals who , from a condition common to the bulk of mankind ...
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... hope ; but this was speedily destroyed by the increasing waters , which , still gaining upon us , convinced me that the tide had not yet reached its height . " Conceiving my own deliverance to be scarcely possible , I felt anxious for ...
... hope ; but this was speedily destroyed by the increasing waters , which , still gaining upon us , convinced me that the tide had not yet reached its height . " Conceiving my own deliverance to be scarcely possible , I felt anxious for ...
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... hope that the tide had reached its height ; and in this I was at length confirmed by the light of the rising moon , which , gleaming on the rocks , shewed , to my inexpressible joy , that the water had actually begun to subside . I was ...
... hope that the tide had reached its height ; and in this I was at length confirmed by the light of the rising moon , which , gleaming on the rocks , shewed , to my inexpressible joy , that the water had actually begun to subside . I was ...
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... hope appeared to for- sake him ; and despair , for a season , seized him as its prey . Our mother - in - law being herself a stranger to personal religion , attributed my brother's anguish wholly to Mr. Clarke's visit ; and , from a ...
... hope appeared to for- sake him ; and despair , for a season , seized him as its prey . Our mother - in - law being herself a stranger to personal religion , attributed my brother's anguish wholly to Mr. Clarke's visit ; and , from a ...
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acquaintance Adam Clarke affectionate appeared arguments Arminian attention Austell blessing body Calvinists Camborne character Christ Christian circumstances connexion conversation Cornwall Davies Gilbert DEAR SIR death Deism divine divine grace doctrine Drew's early endeavoured Essay esteemed eternity expressed faith father favour feel felt frequently gentleman give happiness Helston History of Cornwall honour hope human important inquiry John JOHN WHITAKER Kidd kind labour letter Liskeard literary live Liverpool London Lord ment metaphysical Methodists mind moral nature never notice observed occasion Olinthus Gregory opinion pamphlet perhaps person perusal philosopher Polwhele preach preacher present pulpit reader reason received religion religious remarks reply Resurrection Review SAMUEL DREW scarcely scripture sermon shew sincerely society Socinianism soon soul spirit talents thing thought tion treatise Truro truth Tywardreath views Wesleyan Whitaker William Gregor wish write Your's
Popular passages
Page 57 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 15 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the LORD Almighty...
Page 87 - It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 222 - The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists ; and particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity ; and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written revelation, and, in the second place, from the Revelation of the Lord Jesus ; and from the whole, to point out the inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind.
Page 104 - Happy the man, who sees a God employed In all the good and ill, that chequer life! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
Page 326 - THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.
Page 308 - Seek ye the Lord while he may be found : call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts ; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Page 384 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw. And 'deal damnation round the land. On each I judge thy foe.
Page 57 - Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me: out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
Page 103 - I have never forgotten it ; and while I recollect anything, I never shall. To me it was the voice of God ; and it has been a word in season throughout my life. I learned from it not to leave till tomorrow the work of to-day, or to idle when I ought to be working.