The Life of the Late Reverend and Learned Dr. Cotton Mather: Of Boston, (New England.) ... |
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Page 105 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts : for the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 103 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. " That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us...
Page 82 - Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Page 1 - ... whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do : and the God of peace shall be with you.
Page 105 - A new heart also will I give you, And a new spirit will I put within you; I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, And I will give you a heart of flesh.
Page 104 - It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure.
Page 106 - Lord," and we are assured that " our labour shall not be in vain in the Lord.
Page 95 - A few hours before his death, he said, " Now I have nothing more to do here ; my will is entirely swallowed up in the will of God.
Page 44 - Friday. What special subjects of affliction, and objects of compassion, may I take under my particular care, and what shall I do for them?
Page 102 - God's ordinary providence, which we ought not to distrust, in regard of his promise, that, " While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest — shall not cease," Gen. viii. 22. Q. 7. If a field of corn is in hazard of being carried away by the unexpected inundation of a river, is it lawful to endeavour the preservation of them upon the Sabbath?