Life and Diary of David BrainerdCosimo, Inc., 2007 M06 1 - 384 páginas |
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Página 15
... engaged to spend my time in reading and meditating on Christ , on the beauty and excel- lency of His person , and the lovely way of salvation by free grace in Him . I found no books so delightful to me , as those which treated of these ...
... engaged to spend my time in reading and meditating on Christ , on the beauty and excel- lency of His person , and the lovely way of salvation by free grace in Him . I found no books so delightful to me , as those which treated of these ...
Página 16
... engaged , it always seemed natural for me to sing or chant forth my meditations , or to speak my thoughts in soliloquies , with a singing voice . I had vehement longings of soul after God and Christ , and after more holiness , where ...
... engaged , it always seemed natural for me to sing or chant forth my meditations , or to speak my thoughts in soliloquies , with a singing voice . I had vehement longings of soul after God and Christ , and after more holiness , where ...
Página 58
... engaged more than ever in the duties of religion . I became very strict and watchful over my thoughts , words , and actions ; and thought I must be sober indeed , because I designed to devote myself to the ministry ; and imagined I did ...
... engaged more than ever in the duties of religion . I became very strict and watchful over my thoughts , words , and actions ; and thought I must be sober indeed , because I designed to devote myself to the ministry ; and imagined I did ...
Página 63
... engaged in duty ; that God was not in the least obliged to pity me the more for all past duties , cries , and tears . I strove to my utmost to bring myself to a firm belief of these things and a hearty assent to them ; and hoped that ...
... engaged in duty ; that God was not in the least obliged to pity me the more for all past duties , cries , and tears . I strove to my utmost to bring myself to a firm belief of these things and a hearty assent to them ; and hoped that ...
Página 67
... engaged while I had opportunity , for it seemed now as if the season of doing was forever over and gone . But I instantly saw that , let me have done what I would , it would no more have tended to my helping myself than what I had done ...
... engaged while I had opportunity , for it seemed now as if the season of doing was forever over and gone . But I instantly saw that , let me have done what I would , it would no more have tended to my helping myself than what I had done ...
Contenido
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75 | |
Part III | 93 |
Part IV | 107 |
Part V | 119 |
Part I | 203 |
Part II | 255 |
BRAINERDS LIFE AND DIARY | 308 |
Part VIII | 331 |
Appendix I | 379 |
Appendix III | 385 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 82 - Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee ; in whose heart are the ways of them, who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well ; the rain also filleth the pools.
Página 154 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Página 180 - God-ward : not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God...
Página 341 - If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!
Página 16 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in everything; in the sun, moon, and stars, in the clouds and blue sky, in the grass, flowers, trees, in the water and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for...
Página 127 - LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight.
Página 15 - An inward, sweet sense of these things, at times, came into my heart ; and my soul was led away in pleasant views and contemplations of them. And my mind was greatly engaged to spend my time in reading and meditating on Christ, on the beauty and excellency of his person, and the lovely way of salvation by free grace in him.
Página 13 - From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty, in choosing whom he would to eternal life, and rejecting whom he pleased; leaving them eternally to perish, and be everlastingly tormented in hell. It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.
Página 16 - God, so to speak, at the first appearance of a thunder-storm ; and used to take the opportunity, at such times, to fix myself in order to view the clouds, and see the lightnings play, and hear the majestic and awful voice of God's thunder...