The Christian Comforter: A Gift for the Afflicted and BereavedTompkins, 1846 - 216 Seiten |
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... perfect Being , who formed the mind for progress , and the heart to be expanded by ever increasing love . Yea , verily , the issues of death are with the God of salvation . Christianity in teaching us all this , gives com- fort . But ...
... perfect Being , who formed the mind for progress , and the heart to be expanded by ever increasing love . Yea , verily , the issues of death are with the God of salvation . Christianity in teaching us all this , gives com- fort . But ...
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... perfect . We can see it but in some of the first stages of its progress , and while we are employed in its advancement , we must be like the embroiderers who see but the rough and unseemly surface . We shall in due- time admire the ...
... perfect . We can see it but in some of the first stages of its progress , and while we are employed in its advancement , we must be like the embroiderers who see but the rough and unseemly surface . We shall in due- time admire the ...
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... perfect goodness ; and such passing clouds are apt to darken us in earlier life , and in the earlier stages of christian character . On this account it is right to seek and communicate such explana- tions as may be granted us of the ...
... perfect goodness ; and such passing clouds are apt to darken us in earlier life , and in the earlier stages of christian character . On this account it is right to seek and communicate such explana- tions as may be granted us of the ...
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... perfect wisdom of God , because it is surrounded with mystery , and as it exerts its power man is envel- oped in gloom . Such should ask - Is death a dark thing to God ? They cannot say it is , and why should it be looked upon as an ...
... perfect wisdom of God , because it is surrounded with mystery , and as it exerts its power man is envel- oped in gloom . Such should ask - Is death a dark thing to God ? They cannot say it is , and why should it be looked upon as an ...
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... perfect wisdom and goodness of its institution ; and were eternity the habitation of other than the High and Holy One , we might question the happiness of its inhabi- tants . We read of man's days being appointed or fixed - a time of ...
... perfect wisdom and goodness of its institution ; and were eternity the habitation of other than the High and Holy One , we might question the happiness of its inhabi- tants . We read of man's days being appointed or fixed - a time of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absalom affections affliction amid Amnon angels Apostle assured beauty beloved benevolence bereaved better blessings body breath bright calm cerning cheerful child children of men Christ christian comfort confidence consciousness consola dark dead death deep Deity divine doctrine duty dwell dying earth earthly enjoy enjoyment eternal evil exercise existence faith Father Father's glory fear feel felt flower friends future give glorious glory God's grave grief happy hath heart heaven heavenly HENRY BACON holy honor hope human immortal Jesus John Howard light live look Lord loveliness man-the memory mercy mind mortal mother mysteries nature ness never pain past pathy perfect pray prayer present re-union rection rejoice religion remember resurrection Sadducees Savior scriptures smile song sorrow soul spirit strength suffering sweet sympathy tabernacle teach tears tell tender tender mercies thee things thou thought tion true trust truth unto utterance voice wisdom worlds in space
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 107 - Tis Nature's law That none, the meanest of created things, Of forms created the most vile and brute, The dullest or most noxious, should exist Divorced from good — a spirit and pulse of good, A life and soul, to every mode of being Inseparably linked.
Seite 85 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Seite 53 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Seite 182 - But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way. So grant me, GOD, from every care And stain of passion free, Aloft, through Virtue's purer air, To hold my course to Thee ! No sin to cloud, no lure to stay My Soul, as home she springs ; — Thy Sunshine on her joyful way, Thy Freedom in her wings ! FALLEN IS THY THRONE.
Seite 164 - ONE there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend ; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end.
Seite 106 - All white with flour, the dole of village dames, He drew his scraps and fragments, one by one ; And scanned them with a fixed and serious look Of idle computation. In the sun, Upon the second step of that small pile, Surrounded by those wild unpeopled hills, He sat, and ate his food in solitude : And ever, scattered from his palsied hand, That, still attempting to prevent the waste...
Seite 82 - Now there were with us seven brethren : and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. 27 And last of all the woman died also. 28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
Seite 64 - And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
Seite 94 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof...
Seite 3 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort ; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.