Ears of corn from various sheaves: thoughts for the closet, ed. by S. Lettis1851 |
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... sometimes awaken thought in ourselves , and hint to us the existence of an unwatched weakness , or an unrepented sin . With the hope of affording some little assistance to those who may feel the need of it , the following Selections ...
... sometimes awaken thought in ourselves , and hint to us the existence of an unwatched weakness , or an unrepented sin . With the hope of affording some little assistance to those who may feel the need of it , the following Selections ...
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... sometimes fain to retire into company , to be out of the crowd of themselves . He who must needs have company , must needs have sometimes bad company . Be able to be alone . Lose not the advantages of solitude , and the society of ...
... sometimes fain to retire into company , to be out of the crowd of themselves . He who must needs have company , must needs have sometimes bad company . Be able to be alone . Lose not the advantages of solitude , and the society of ...
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... sometimes ask for things that would be mischievous to them if granted . . We are taught to understand by the promise , that God will give the devout worshipper , what He knows in His wisdom will be good for him . It has pleased God to ...
... sometimes ask for things that would be mischievous to them if granted . . We are taught to understand by the promise , that God will give the devout worshipper , what He knows in His wisdom will be good for him . It has pleased God to ...
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... sometimes through the air , about his ministries here below : so is the prayer of a good man ; when his affairs have required business , and his business was matter of discipline , and his discipline was to pass upon a sinning person ...
... sometimes through the air , about his ministries here below : so is the prayer of a good man ; when his affairs have required business , and his business was matter of discipline , and his discipline was to pass upon a sinning person ...
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... sometimes opens itself ( when our mind is troubled ) , and reproaches and moves us to change our lives . But this book pre- sently shuts again , because we ( attend not to it ) do not make application enough to take advantage of these ...
... sometimes opens itself ( when our mind is troubled ) , and reproaches and moves us to change our lives . But this book pre- sently shuts again , because we ( attend not to it ) do not make application enough to take advantage of these ...
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الصفحة 120 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
الصفحة 120 - We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
الصفحة 141 - It is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
الصفحة 91 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over, he is superior ; for it is a prince's part to pardon : and Solomon, I am sure, saith, " It is the " glory of a man to pass by an offence.
الصفحة 140 - MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a 'tribute due unto nature, is wealc, Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
الصفحة 65 - Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. 26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
الصفحة 19 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
الصفحة 82 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
الصفحة 23 - And I will place within them as a guide, My umpire Conscience ; whom if they will hear, Light after light, well us'd, they shall attain, And to the end, persisting, safe arrive.
الصفحة 18 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection; the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thought*, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...