Sketches and Incidents: Or, A Budget from the Saddlebags of a Superannuated Itinerant, Volume 1G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, J. Collard, printer, 1844 - 363 pages |
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Page 31 - AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Page 30 - O COME, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Page 105 - For by grace, ye are saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.
Page 62 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 53 - For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Page 141 - We took sweet counsel together, And walked to the house of God in company.
Page 134 - A taste for Books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the glory of the Indies.
Page 23 - Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry ; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. It is true, I travel four or five thousand miles in a year.
Page 73 - I praise thee, I bless thee, I glorify thee, through the eternal high priest, Jesus Christ, thy well-beloved Son. Through whom glory be to thee with him in the Holy Ghost, both now and for ever. Amen.
Page 25 - His face was remarkably fine, his complexion fresh to the last week of his life, and his eye quick, keen, and active." He ceased not his labors till death. After the eightieth year of his age, he visited Holland twice. At the end of his eighty-second, he says, " I am never tired (such is the goodness of God) either with writing, preaching, or travelling.