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... wilt thou yet doubt and fear , against all this evidence , ex- perience , and foretaste ? XIX . I think it no needless labour to con- firm my soul in the full persuasion of the truth of its immortal nature , and of a future life of joy ...
... wilt thou yet doubt and fear , against all this evidence , ex- perience , and foretaste ? XIX . I think it no needless labour to con- firm my soul in the full persuasion of the truth of its immortal nature , and of a future life of joy ...
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... wilt thou not under- stand their business ? Wouldst thou dwell with thy beloved body in the grave , where it will rot in loathsome darkness ? If not , why should it now , in its painful languor , seem to thee a more pleasing habitation ...
... wilt thou not under- stand their business ? Wouldst thou dwell with thy beloved body in the grave , where it will rot in loathsome darkness ? If not , why should it now , in its painful languor , seem to thee a more pleasing habitation ...
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... . " Come then , my soul , and think believ- ingly what is best for thee ; and wilt thou not love and desire that most , which is cer- tainly best ? " CHAPTER IV . WHY IT IS FAR BETTER TO BE III . ] 71 AND TO BE WITH CHRIST .
... . " Come then , my soul , and think believ- ingly what is best for thee ; and wilt thou not love and desire that most , which is cer- tainly best ? " CHAPTER IV . WHY IT IS FAR BETTER TO BE III . ] 71 AND TO BE WITH CHRIST .
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... wilt thou not will- ingly go , when such infinite love calls thee ? Art thou not desirous of his presence ? Art thou afraid to go to him , who is the only cure of G thy fears ? What was it but this glory , Iv . ] WHY IT IS BETTER TO BE ...
... wilt thou not will- ingly go , when such infinite love calls thee ? Art thou not desirous of his presence ? Art thou afraid to go to him , who is the only cure of G thy fears ? What was it but this glory , Iv . ] WHY IT IS BETTER TO BE ...
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... wilt feel its powerful efficacy . It is night and winter with carnal minds , when it is day and summer with those that set their faces heavenward . " XIV . But in heaven God will make use of second causes , even in communicating his ...
... wilt feel its powerful efficacy . It is night and winter with carnal minds , when it is day and summer with those that set their faces heavenward . " XIV . But in heaven God will make use of second causes , even in communicating his ...
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Page 61 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 127 - The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; Therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, To the soul that seeketh him.
Page 138 - Many shall come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God.
Page 122 - It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: if we suffer, we shall also reign with him...
Page 124 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God...
Page 124 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the -waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 77 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : When shall I come and appear before God...
Page 122 - Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations...
Page 20 - None of these things move me ; neither count I my life dear unto myself ; so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Page 126 - If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand ? But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared.