The Life of John Brainerd: The Brother of David Brainerd, and His Successor as Missionary to the Indians of New Jersey ...Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1865 - 484 páginas |
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... honors , but , for an indiscretion prompted by religious enthusiasm , banished from his alma mater and its doors forever barred against him ; the candidate for the ministry , mastering in his studies alike the sublimest problems of ...
... honors , but , for an indiscretion prompted by religious enthusiasm , banished from his alma mater and its doors forever barred against him ; the candidate for the ministry , mastering in his studies alike the sublimest problems of ...
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... honors were then highly estimated . To be stricken down in his course and dismissed in disgrace was adapted not alone to cut him to the heart , but to overwhelm with disappointment and shame his younger brother , as yet a timid Fresh ...
... honors were then highly estimated . To be stricken down in his course and dismissed in disgrace was adapted not alone to cut him to the heart , but to overwhelm with disappointment and shame his younger brother , as yet a timid Fresh ...
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... honors of that institution . However infelicitous may have been the treatment of the warm - hearted and over - zeal- ous missionary , no one will doubt that his imme- diate kindred and family connections owe a vast debt of gratitude to ...
... honors of that institution . However infelicitous may have been the treatment of the warm - hearted and over - zeal- ous missionary , no one will doubt that his imme- diate kindred and family connections owe a vast debt of gratitude to ...
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... earnestly desire . Worldly pleasures , such as flow from greatness , riches , and honors , and sensual gratifications , are infinitely worse than none . May the Lord deliver us more and more from these vanities . 62 LIFE OF JOHN BRAINerd .
... earnestly desire . Worldly pleasures , such as flow from greatness , riches , and honors , and sensual gratifications , are infinitely worse than none . May the Lord deliver us more and more from these vanities . 62 LIFE OF JOHN BRAINerd .
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... honored with the title of the " Apostle to the Indians . " Still earlier than Eliot on the islands of Mar- tha's Vineyard and Nantucket , Thomas Mayhew began to preach the gospel to the Indians in 1643 ; and for five generations , until ...
... honored with the title of the " Apostle to the Indians . " Still earlier than Eliot on the islands of Mar- tha's Vineyard and Nantucket , Thomas Mayhew began to preach the gospel to the Indians in 1643 ; and for five generations , until ...
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The Life of John Brainerd: The Brother of David Brainerd, and His Successor ... Thomas Brainerd Vista de fragmentos - 1986 |
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Página 248 - Spirit attend a preached gospel to the most distant parts of the world, till the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever.
Página 421 - There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Página 148 - An humble attempt to promote explicit agreement, and visible union of God's people, in extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion, and the advancement of Christ's kingdom on earth...
Página 111 - God seemed to descend upon the assembly " like a rushing mighty wind," and with an astonishing energy bore down all before it. I stood amazed at the influence which seized the audience almost universally, and could compare it to nothing more aptly, than the irresistible force of a mighty torrent or...
Página 39 - Tis hard to rhyme About a little and unnoticed stream, That few have heard of — but it is a theme I chance to love; And one day I may tune my rye-straw reed, And whistle to the note of many a deed Done on this river — which, if there be need, I'll try to prove. THE BLACK FOX OF SALMON RIVER.
Página 129 - He also expressed much satisfaction in the disposals of Providence, with regard to the circumstances of his death; particularly that God had before his death given him...
Página 130 - Dear Jerusha, are you willing to part with me ? I am quite willing to part with you ; I am willing to part with all my friends, I am willing to part with my dear brother John, although I love him the best of any creature living : I have committed him and all my friends to God, and can leave them with God. Though if I thought I should not see you, and be happy with you in another world, I could not bear to part with you. But we shall spend a happy eternity together...
Página 74 - Nov. 29. Began to study the Indian tongue, with Mr. Sergeant at Stockbridge*. — Was perplexed for want of more retirement. — I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, &c.
Página 314 - I look upon him to be one of the most valuable men upon earth ; he has. joined to an ardent sense of religion, solid learning, consummate prudence, great candour and sweetness of temper; and a certain nobleness of soul, capable of contriving and acting the greatest things, without seeming to be conscious of having done them.
Página 124 - God knows, I was heartily willing to have served him longer in the work of the ministry, although it had still been attended with all the labours and hardships of past years, if he had seen fit that it should be so : but as his will now appears otherwise, I am fully content, and can with the utmost freedom say, " The will of the Lord be done.