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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... nature , there are some memoirs which furnish more valuable facts and more delicate tests than others . Where , for instance , the mental powers have been called into exercise at a late period of life , and under circum- stances ...
... nature , there are some memoirs which furnish more valuable facts and more delicate tests than others . Where , for instance , the mental powers have been called into exercise at a late period of life , and under circum- stances ...
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... natural property , could not be transmitted ; but , by the grace of God , the children were made partakers of that salvation which their parents so fully experienced . SECTION III . - Birth of Samuel Drew - Poverty 16 LIFE OF SAMUEL DREW .
... natural property , could not be transmitted ; but , by the grace of God , the children were made partakers of that salvation which their parents so fully experienced . SECTION III . - Birth of Samuel Drew - Poverty 16 LIFE OF SAMUEL DREW .
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... nature . " - 6 That one who , like this pious female , had lived the life , would die the death , of the righteous , ' every reader will naturally anticipate . Her trust in the atonement was firm - the evidence of her ac- ceptance clear ...
... nature . " - 6 That one who , like this pious female , had lived the life , would die the death , of the righteous , ' every reader will naturally anticipate . Her trust in the atonement was firm - the evidence of her ac- ceptance clear ...
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... natural principles , for what I then heard and saw . As to the fact , I am sure there was no deception . It was a night of unusual brightness , occasioned by a cloudless full moon . How many of us were together I do not know , nor do I ...
... natural principles , for what I then heard and saw . As to the fact , I am sure there was no deception . It was a night of unusual brightness , occasioned by a cloudless full moon . How many of us were together I do not know , nor do I ...
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... natural science ; for could we succeed , it would be no longer supernatural . If it be inquired , for what purpose such a creature was sent , or permitted to appear to us , I cannot undertake to answer . With reference to myself , I ...
... natural science ; for could we succeed , it would be no longer supernatural . If it be inquired , for what purpose such a creature was sent , or permitted to appear to us , I cannot undertake to answer . With reference to myself , I ...
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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.