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Page 258 - The love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; and that He died for all, that they who live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them, and rose again.
Page 198 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 263 - Taylor was in many respects an extraordinary woman ; and her biographer has performed his task in a style of great excellence. The narrative of her conviction and contrition, which is here given, is deeply affecting and instructive, by reason of its protracted character, as well as the circumstances which kept her so long without the "joy in believing," which she afterwards found to have been her privilege.
Page 258 - works by love, purifies the heart, and overcomes the world.
Page 264 - ... of which the apostle speaks. Subsequently, her enlightened piety, her growth in grace, and her experience of the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of peace, made her a "burning and shining light.
Page 260 - ... Christian, drawn by a most judicious and faithful hand. The young Christian who is just commencing his course, and whose temptations and trials are sometimes leading him to despondency, will read this book with thankfulness ; and those who are yet strangers to vital religion may be induced, from this lovely instance of its powerful effects in sustaining the soul, under the heaviest afflictions of life, and in the hour of sickness and death, to seek for themselves an interest in the Lord JESUS...
Page 264 - ... which she afterwards found to have been her privilege. That her's was the true "godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation," no one can doubt ; and yet she was for many years the subject of its anguish and mental agony, before she received the " spirit of adoption," or had the " witnesses in herself
Page 263 - MEMOIR OF MRS. SARAH LOUISA TAYLOR: or an Illustration of the work of the Holy Spirit, in awakening, renewing, and sanctifying the heart.
Page 104 - Rich and poor alike constantly need to be reminded that "a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things that he possesseth.