Life and Diary of David BrainerdCosimo, Inc., 2007 M06 1 - 384 páginas |
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Página 12
... writing , and every other kind of composition , as one of the best means of intellectual discipline . That this early habit exerted much influence on his subsequent studies and investigations , and contributed , in no small degree , to ...
... writing , and every other kind of composition , as one of the best means of intellectual discipline . That this early habit exerted much influence on his subsequent studies and investigations , and contributed , in no small degree , to ...
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... writing . " So exact was the distribution of his time , " says an early , unnamed biographer , " and so perfect the command of his mental powers , that , in addition to his preparation of two discourses in each week , his stated and ...
... writing . " So exact was the distribution of his time , " says an early , unnamed biographer , " and so perfect the command of his mental powers , that , in addition to his preparation of two discourses in each week , his stated and ...
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... writing . He was inaugurated as president on February 16 , 1758. It seems rather remarkable that , although he held this office for only five weeks , he has ever since been known as " President Edwards . " Cases of smallpox now began to ...
... writing . He was inaugurated as president on February 16 , 1758. It seems rather remarkable that , although he held this office for only five weeks , he has ever since been known as " President Edwards . " Cases of smallpox now began to ...
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... writing any more . She thought you would be glad of these few lines from her own hand . " O dear sister , how many calls have we , one upon the back of another ! Oh , I beg your prayers , that we , who are young in the family , may be ...
... writing any more . She thought you would be glad of these few lines from her own hand . " O dear sister , how many calls have we , one upon the back of another ! Oh , I beg your prayers , that we , who are young in the family , may be ...
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Jonathan Edwards. thought of nothing beyond their personal fame as philoso- phers or writers , to the correspondence and diary of a man like Edwards ! In the one case , the single , paramount motive , -literary or philosophic vanity ...
Jonathan Edwards. thought of nothing beyond their personal fame as philoso- phers or writers , to the correspondence and diary of a man like Edwards ! In the one case , the single , paramount motive , -literary or philosophic vanity ...
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
affected afternoon Afterwards agreeable appeared April April 14 April 20 assembly assistance attended August August 23 awakened blessed Brainerd cern Christ comfort concern congregation considerable conversation David Brainerd dear death December 26 desire diary discourse distress divers divine grace divine things divine truths duty Edwards enabled endeavored engaged enjoyed especially eternity exercise felt fervency forenoon Forks of Delaware frame freedom Friday glory God's gospel grace heart heaven holiness hope Indians Jesus Jonathan Edwards journey June 19 labor live Lord Lord's Day Lord's Supper meditation melted mercy miles mind Monday morning ness never night October October 26 pain persons pleased pray preached refreshed rejoiced religion religious Resolved Rode Saturday scarce season secret prayer sense September September 14 September 20 sinners solemn soul spent spirit sundry Susquehannah sweet tender thought Thursday tion Tuesday vile visited weak Wednesday Word Yale College
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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...