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... to bless “ the means used for his recovery , " therefore desired his friends to be
willing to resign him to God , saying , “ It will not be long before we meet in
heaven , “ never to part more , and there we shall be perfectly “ happy : There
neither ...
... to bless “ the means used for his recovery , " therefore desired his friends to be
willing to resign him to God , saying , “ It will not be long before we meet in
heaven , “ never to part more , and there we shall be perfectly “ happy : There
neither ...
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About this time he married , having no other portion with his wife than the two
following books , left by her late father , « The Plain Man ' s Pathway to Heaven ; '
and « The « Practice of Piety . ' Bunyan often reading in these books , and his
wife ...
About this time he married , having no other portion with his wife than the two
following books , left by her late father , « The Plain Man ' s Pathway to Heaven ; '
and « The « Practice of Piety . ' Bunyan often reading in these books , and his
wife ...
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This however produced an outward reformation in his life and conversation , and
he set the commandments before him as his guide to heaven ; which , while he
thought be kept , he had comfort , but when he broke any of them , his conscience
...
This however produced an outward reformation in his life and conversation , and
he set the commandments before him as his guide to heaven ; which , while he
thought be kept , he had comfort , but when he broke any of them , his conscience
...
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... could move him from his stedfastness . “ Although I may speak it “ with shame ,
yet ( says he ) it is a certain truth , that it * would have been as difficult for me to
have taken my " mind from heaven to earth , as I have found it often * since to get
it ...
... could move him from his stedfastness . “ Although I may speak it “ with shame ,
yet ( says he ) it is a certain truth , that it * would have been as difficult for me to
have taken my " mind from heaven to earth , as I have found it often * since to get
it ...
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The Heavenly Footman ; or , a Description of the Man that gets to Heaven , & c .
IX . Solomon ' s Temple spiritualized , & c . X . The acceptable Sacrifice ; or , the
Excellency of a broken Heart . XI . Sighs from Hell ; or , the Groans of a damned ...
The Heavenly Footman ; or , a Description of the Man that gets to Heaven , & c .
IX . Solomon ' s Temple spiritualized , & c . X . The acceptable Sacrifice ; or , the
Excellency of a broken Heart . XI . Sighs from Hell ; or , the Groans of a damned ...
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Page 374 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering. Forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 251 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 193 - I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Page 262 - And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Page 208 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 410 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 9 - And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever: And I do make this recognition and acknowledgment heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian, So help me God.
Page 246 - My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth among the lilies. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe Or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Page 256 - He was, as he hints in his Miscellanies, a maker of verses from fifteen to fifty, and in his youth he appears to have paid attention to Latin poetry. His verses to his brother, in the glyconick measure, written when he was seventeen, are remarkably easy and elegant.
Page 267 - The stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
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| Title | Evangelical Biography: Or, An Historical Account of the Lives & Deaths of the Most Eminent and Evangelical Authors Or Preachers, Both British and Foreign, in the Several Denominations of Protestants, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Present Time ... Volume 4 of Evangelical Biography: Or, An Historical Account of the Lives & Deaths of the Most Eminent and Evangelical Authors Or Preachers, Both British and Foreign, in the Several Denominations of Protestants, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Present Time, Erasmus Middleton Volume 4 of Evangelical biography, Erasmus Middleton |
| Author | Erasmus Middleton |
| Publisher | W. Baynes, 1816 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Aug 2005 |
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