Lives of Bunyan, Henry, and HallT. Nelson and Sons, 1853 - 183 páginas |
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Página 101 - Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Página 108 - Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Página 89 - I entreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word. 59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Página 36 - Lord: looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled : lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Página 96 - Christ, according to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Página 44 - Now did my chains fall off my legs indeed ; I was loosed from my afflictions and my irons; my temptations also fled away ; so that from that time those dreadful scriptures of God left off to trouble me. Now went I also home rejoicing for the grace and love of God...
Página 9 - Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of Thy ways
Página 27 - I thought I could have spoken of His love and of His mercy to me, even to the very crows that sat upon the ploughed lands before me, had they been capable to have understood me ; wherefore I said in my soul, with much gladness, " Well, I would I had a pen and ink here, I would write this down before I go any farther, for surely I will not forget this forty years hence.
Página 21 - About this wall I thought myself to go again and again, still prying as I went, to see if I could find some way or passage by which I might enter therein ; but none could I find for some time. At the last I saw as it were a narrow gap, like a little door-way, in the wall, through which I attempted to pass. Now the passage being very strait and narrow, I made many offers...
Página 11 - ... in very eagerly with the religion of the times ; to wit, to go to church twice a day, and that too with the foremost ; and there should very devoutly both say and sing, as others did, yet retaining my wicked life...