Conversations on Matrimony: Intended as an Accompaniment to the Letters Lately Published on the Duties, Advantages, Pleasures, and Sorrows of the Marriage State

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J. Ovington, 1815 - 143 páginas
 

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Página 58 - of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness ,• from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain ; for we brought nothing into this world, ami it is certain we can carry nothing
Página 105 - the death of Absalom !—O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ; would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son. When
Página 42 - What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that
Página 134 - review Confirms his good pleasure to help me quite through. Why should I complain of want or distress, Temptation or pain ? He told me no less : The heirs of salvation, I know from his word, Through much tribulation must follow their Lord.
Página 134 - His love in time past forbids me to think He'll leave me at last in trouble to sink ; Each sweet Ebenezer I have iu review Confirms his good pleasure to help me quite through.
Página 61 - Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words—Believe and live. Too many, shock'd at what should charm them most, Despise the plain direction, and are lost. Heaven on such terms, they cry, with proud disdain, Incredible, impossible, and vain
Página 57 - man consent not to the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing,
Página 134 - verse— How bitter that cup, no heart can conceive, Which he drank quite up, that sinners might live ! His way was much rougher, and darker than mine, Did Jesus thus suffer, and shall I repine ? his
Página 140 - A guilty, weak, and helpless worm, On thy kind arms I fall ; Be thou my strength and righteousness, My Jesus and my all.
Página 139 - My soul looks back to see, The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on the cursed tree ; And hopes her guilt was there.

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