Narrative of a Tour Taken in the Year 1667 to La Grande Chartreuse and Alet |
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Page xi - 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...
Page 70 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lor.d. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
Page iii - God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.
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Page 25 - ... the light of life. He is the Lamb that taketh away the sins of the whole world ; yea, that bore our sins in his own body on the tree. He is the good shepherd who goes before, and calls his sheep by name.
Page 58 - ... indescribable. The only adequate comparison of sensation I can make is that excited by the sight of death. In descending the steep, through difficult and intricate by-paths, the traveller again loses sight of the abbey, till he has actually reached the hot77 torn of the hill.
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Page 23 - One reason indeed of studying the scripture is, that we may grow in the knowledge of GOD in Christ Jesus ; another, that we may be able to give an answer to every man concerning the hope which is in us : but, let us remember, that a third, and not a less important one is, that the man of GOD may be thoroughly furnished to every good work.
Page 156 - ... end. We dare not go into the fields for any more, as they are full of marauding parties. We hear that the abbey of St. Cyran has been burned and pillaged. Our own is threatened with an attack every day. The cold weather alone preserves us from pestilence. We are so closely crowded, that deaths happen continually. God, however, is with us, and we are at peace.