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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... seen in his writings , he has been less solicitous to shew the metaphysician , than to depict the man - to por- tray the philosopher , than to delineate the Christian . For this reason , many letters of profound thought and great value ...
... seen in his writings , he has been less solicitous to shew the metaphysician , than to depict the man - to por- tray the philosopher , than to delineate the Christian . For this reason , many letters of profound thought and great value ...
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... . In some circuits the local preachers pay their own unavoid- able travelling expenses . No class of ministers can be more disinterested than this . which the writer of this memoir has seen , is 14 LIFE OF SAMUEL DREW .
... . In some circuits the local preachers pay their own unavoid- able travelling expenses . No class of ministers can be more disinterested than this . which the writer of this memoir has seen , is 14 LIFE OF SAMUEL DREW .
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Jacob Halls Drew. which the writer of this memoir has seen , is appa- rently the firm , bold character of a practised hand ; and the following extract from a manuscript of her's proves that she must have made some proficiency in the art ...
Jacob Halls Drew. which the writer of this memoir has seen , is appa- rently the firm , bold character of a practised hand ; and the following extract from a manuscript of her's proves that she must have made some proficiency in the art ...
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... seen ; but when her son attained to manhood . the fruits of her teaching became evident . How deep was the impression made on his mind at the tender age in which she became his teacher , careless and thoughtless as he seemed to be ...
... seen ; but when her son attained to manhood . the fruits of her teaching became evident . How deep was the impression made on his mind at the tender age in which she became his teacher , careless and thoughtless as he seemed to be ...
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... seen a tender mother torn From three small babes she left behind to mourn . One infant son retired from life before ; Next followed she , whose loss I now deplore . This throbbing breast has heaved the heartfelt sigh , And breathed ...
... seen a tender mother torn From three small babes she left behind to mourn . One infant son retired from life before ; Next followed she , whose loss I now deplore . This throbbing breast has heaved the heartfelt sigh , And breathed ...
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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
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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.