Sketch Book, Or, Miscellaneous Anecdotes: Illustrating a Variety of Topics Proper to the Pulpit and Platform

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Carlton & Porter, 1860 - 352 頁
 

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第 291 頁 - I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How he called little children as lambs to his fold, I should like to have been with them then.
第 166 頁 - The sacrifice of God is a contrite spirit; a contrite and a broken heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
第 122 頁 - Christ, whom having not seen we love, in whom, though now we see Him not, yet believing, we rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory, receiving the end of our faith, even the salvation of our souls.
第 68 頁 - Faint streaks of purple soon blushed along the sky; the whole celestial concave was filled with the inflowing tides of the morning light, which came pouring down from above in one great ocean of radiance; till at length, as we reached the Blue Hills, a flash of purple fire blazed out from above the horizon, and turned the dewy tear-drops of flower and leaf into rubies and diamonds. In a few seconds, trie everlasting gates of the morning were thrown wide open, and the lord of day, arrayed in glories...
第 85 頁 - A father so pities his children that he would, if he could, even suffer in their stead. More than one father has said, " Would God I had died for thee, my son, my son !" And is the pity of the Lord like a father's in this particular too ? Yes.
第 138 頁 - God ; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised...
第 102 頁 - I insist upon conquering the will of children betimes, because this is the only strong and rational foundation of a religious education, without which both precept and example will be ineffectual. But when this is thoroughly done, then a child is capable of being governed by the reason and piety of its parents, till its own understanding comes to maturity, and the principles of religion have taken root in the mind.
第 104 頁 - Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.
第 313 頁 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
第 147 頁 - I must confess as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven, principally kindles my love to them on earth. If I thought I should never know them, and consequently never love them after this life is ended, I should in reason number them with temporal things, and love them as such; but I now...

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