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Page xvii - And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
Page vii - Look unto me , and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth; for I AM GOD, and there is none else.
Page 35 - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, LORD, what wait I for ? my hope is- in Thee.
Page 24 - ... they saw Christ, in some posture or other, perhaps on the cross, bleeding and dying for their sins; or it may be, smiling on them, and thereby signifying his love to them: and that these and the like things, though mere imaginations, which have nothing spiritual in them, have instantly removed all their fears and distresses, filled them with raptures of joy, and made them imagine, that they loved Christ with all their hearts ; when the bottom of all was nothing but self-love. For when they imagined...
Page ix - Now we have Received not the SPIRIT of the world, but the SPIRIT which Is of GOD; that we may know the things that are freely given To us by GOD.
Page 41 - ... all I did was very vile, which when my heart was somewhat touched with, immediately the Lord revealed himself to me in his fullness of goodness with much sweet affection. The Lord suddenly appeared and let me see there was strength in him to succor me, wisdom to guide, mercy in him to pity, spirit to quicken, Christ to satisfy, and so I saw all my good was there, as all evil was in myself.
Page 14 - God will curse that Man's Labours, that lumbers up and down in the World all the Week, and then upon Saturday, in the afternoon goes to his Study; whereas God knows, that Time were little enough to pray in and weep in, and get his Heart into a fit Frame for the Duties of the approaching Sabbath; So the Character of his daily Conversation, was A Trembling Walk with God...
Page 25 - Christ had been so good to them as to save them, and as it were to single them out of all the world, they could not but feel some kind of natural gratitude to him; although they never had any spiritual view of his divine glory, excellency, and beauty, and consequently never had any love to him for himself. Or that instead of having some such imaginary view of Christ as has been mentioned, in order to remove their distress, and give them joy, some having had a passage, or perhaps many passages of...
Page 82 - Hereupon I found my heart drawn more sweetly to close with God thus as my end and to place my happiness in it, and also I saw it was my misery to hold forth sin and Satan and self in my course. And I saw one of these two things I must do. Now because my soul wanted pleasure I purposed thus to hold forth God and did hope it should be my pleasure so to do as it would be my pain to do otherwise.
Page 15 - Oh, love the Lord Jesus very dearly! that little part that I have in him, is no small comfort to me now." He died August 25, 1649, when he was forty-three years and nine months old; and left behind him of...