Secret Journal of a Self-observer: Or, Confessions and Familiar Letters of the Rev. J.C. Lavater, ... In Two Volumes. Translated from the German Original, by the Rev. Peter Will, ...T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1795 |
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Page 266 - It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: if we suffer, we shall also reign with him : if we deny him, he also will deny us : if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
Page 48 - That ye may be blamelefs and harmlefs, the fons of God, without rebuke, in the midft of a crooked and perverfe nation, among whom ye fhine as lights in the world...
Page 49 - God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name ; that at the name of Jefus, every knee...
Page 140 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burnt and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing...
Page 218 - For, we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diflblved, we have a building of GOD, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 15 - Let the field exult, and all that is therein; Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy ; Before the Lord, for he cometh ; For he cometh to judge the earth : He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with his truth.
Page 27 - Ghoft for compiling the facred volume, was, " that in the ages to come he might fhew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindnefs towards us, through Chrift Jefus.
Page 27 - Now therefore ye are no more ftrangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the faints, and of the houfehold of GOD.
Page 247 - Sir (said Susan Gray), what will you think of me when I tell you that I did not try to get away from the Captain, but that I listened to him for a long while. I forgot, at that moment, to apply to God for help, but He had not forgotten me, as I shall show you presently, Sir.
Page 46 - God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jefus Chrift. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge, and in all judgment : That ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be fincere, and without offence till the day of Chrift ; being filled with the fruits of righteoufnefs, which are by Jefus Chrift, unto the glory and praife of God, The Gofpel.