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... things would often of a sudden kindle up , as it were , a sweet burning in my heart ; an ardor of soul , that I know not how to ex- press . 20 Not long after I first began to experience these things , I gave an account to my father of ...
... things would often of a sudden kindle up , as it were , a sweet burning in my heart ; an ardor of soul , that I know not how to ex- press . 20 Not long after I first began to experience these things , I gave an account to my father of ...
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... things year after year ; often walking alone in the woods and solitary places , for meditation , so- liloquy , and prayer , and converse with God ; and it was always my manner , at such times , to sing forth my contemplations . I was ...
... things year after year ; often walking alone in the woods and solitary places , for meditation , so- liloquy , and prayer , and converse with God ; and it was always my manner , at such times , to sing forth my contemplations . I was ...
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... things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and ab- sorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , — one as much as another . All things are dis- solved to ...
... things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and ab- sorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , — one as much as another . All things are dis- solved to ...
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JONATHAN EDWARDS 17031758 | 16 |
Sarah Pierrepont | 24 |
JOHN WOOLMAN 17201772 | 31 |
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