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, ...

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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.

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