Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton ...: With General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and CharacterW. Baynes and Son, 1824 - 127 páginas |
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... seemed as willing to learn as my mother was to teach me . I had some ca- pacity , and a retentive memory . When Lwas four years old , I could read ( hard names excepted ) as well as I can now , and could likewise repeat the answers to ...
... seemed as willing to learn as my mother was to teach me . I had some ca- pacity , and a retentive memory . When Lwas four years old , I could read ( hard names excepted ) as well as I can now , and could likewise repeat the answers to ...
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... seemed willing to adopt and bring me up ; but , after two or three years , she had a son of her own , who en- grossed the old gentleman's notice . My father was a very sensible and a moral man , as the world rates mo- rality , but ...
... seemed willing to adopt and bring me up ; but , after two or three years , she had a son of her own , who en- grossed the old gentleman's notice . My father was a very sensible and a moral man , as the world rates mo- rality , but ...
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... , for fear of speaking an idle word . I seemed to bemoan my former miscarriages very earnestly , and sometimes with tears in short , I became an ascetic , and endeavoured , as far as my situation would permit , to renounce 4 MEMOIRS OF THE.
... , for fear of speaking an idle word . I seemed to bemoan my former miscarriages very earnestly , and sometimes with tears in short , I became an ascetic , and endeavoured , as far as my situation would permit , to renounce 4 MEMOIRS OF THE.
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... seemed to go on smoothly . He walked fast , and thought to have seen his father in about two hours , when he was met by a small party of soldiers , whom he could not avoid or deceive : they brought him back to Plymouth , through the ...
... seemed to go on smoothly . He walked fast , and thought to have seen his father in about two hours , when he was met by a small party of soldiers , whom he could not avoid or deceive : they brought him back to Plymouth , through the ...
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... seemed to be the last remains of a good educa tion which he could now boast of : and though his great distress might have been a strong temptation to fraud , it seems he never once thought of defrauding his master in the smallest matter ...
... seemed to be the last remains of a good educa tion which he could now boast of : and though his great distress might have been a strong temptation to fraud , it seems he never once thought of defrauding his master in the smallest matter ...
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Página 113 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Página 68 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves...
Página 77 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.
Página 83 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Página 122 - Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Página 106 - But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...
Página 123 - But seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you ? Dare you believe this promise or not ? I DARE : and will act accordingly, by God's assistance.
Página 66 - And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
Página 78 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee ; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee...
Página 74 - ... chiefly fixed upon the skill of the composer, in adapting the style of his music to the very solemn language and subject with which they are trifling. The King, however, out of his great clemency and compassion towards those who have no pity for themselves, prevents them with his goodness.