Memoir of the Rev. John Stanford, D.D.: Late Chaplain to the Humane and Criminal Institutions in the City of New-YorkSwords, Stanford, and Company, 1835 - 417 pages |
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... Sin lamented Self - dedication Visit to a Backslider Final State of Infants CONTENTS . Page * 9 * 998588886888 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 55 57 CHAPTER IV . Unexpected Relief Cast down , but not destroyed Visit to Stamford Despair , the ...
... Sin lamented Self - dedication Visit to a Backslider Final State of Infants CONTENTS . Page * 9 * 998588886888 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 55 57 CHAPTER IV . Unexpected Relief Cast down , but not destroyed Visit to Stamford Despair , the ...
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... sins . Mr. Hooper perceiving he had at least obtained access to my ear , and that I began better to approve of his ... sinful state . " One day while reading the fifty - fourth chapter of Isaiah , I received great encouragement from the ...
... sins . Mr. Hooper perceiving he had at least obtained access to my ear , and that I began better to approve of his ... sinful state . " One day while reading the fifty - fourth chapter of Isaiah , I received great encouragement from the ...
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... sinful conduct ; but only , because I had become religious , and had gone after the dissenters . ' 6 " When subsequently I walked over those fields which my late uncle had so often told me should be mine , I confess that I felt a degree ...
... sinful conduct ; but only , because I had become religious , and had gone after the dissenters . ' 6 " When subsequently I walked over those fields which my late uncle had so often told me should be mine , I confess that I felt a degree ...
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... sin were not as pungent and overwhelm- ing as do sometimes precede the joys of a hope in Christ ; " nevertheless , " he remarks in his diary ; " the God of my mercy has done that for me which I could not have performed for myself ...
... sin were not as pungent and overwhelm- ing as do sometimes precede the joys of a hope in Christ ; " nevertheless , " he remarks in his diary ; " the God of my mercy has done that for me which I could not have performed for myself ...
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... sin , and my life from evil , that I may walk before thee in the light of the living . " At a subsequent period , and when treading the declivity of life , he remarks : " My death , in some form , is as certain as the decree of God ...
... sin , and my life from evil , that I may walk before thee in the light of the living . " At a subsequent period , and when treading the declivity of life , he remarks : " My death , in some form , is as certain as the decree of God ...
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Page 369 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 18 - And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Page 91 - He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.
Page 336 - And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Page 341 - Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith : and much people was added unto the Lord.
Page 372 - Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Page 140 - The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. » The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Page 341 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 38 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Page 38 - I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.