Journal of the Life of John Wilbur: A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends : with Selections from His Correspondence, &cG.H. Whitney, 1859 - 596 pages |
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Page 335 - yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood ; for I know this, that after my departure shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock,
Page 590 - Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body." " For we which live, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 2 Cor. iv. 10,11.
Page 207 - word of Truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers and yet true; as unknown and yet well known; as dying and behold they live; as chastened and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;
Page 567 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Matt. xxv. 41. " For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.
Page 139 - language of grief, as I pass through this land, " How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street! The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold,
Page 567 - were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto
Page 418 - Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall; the archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him; but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob ; from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel.
Page 212 - of distress, of great perplexity, of darkness, and of treading down, a day in which we are called to mourning and lamentation ! and in which the priests, the Lord's ministers, have to weep, as between the porch and the altar, saying, " Spare thy people, 0 Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach ?
Page 567 - and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out,
Page 351 - art thou that thou shouldst be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass.