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able affection affectionately appear arrived attended believe Bengali bible bless brethren brother Calcutta called Carey cause Christ christian church circumstances considerable continued conversation dear DEAR BROTHER death desire divine engaged England English expect expense fear feel felt four friends give gospel hand heard heart heathen Hindus hope hundred important India interest labours language late letter live Lord manner means mentioned miles mind ministers mission missionary month morning natives nature necessary never object occasion offered perhaps persons pleasure poor prayer preaching present printed reason received religious removed respect rupees scarcely sent Serampore ship sister society soon soul spirit success suppose things Thomas thought thousand tion told translation trust whole wish write
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Page 287 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Page 564 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 555 - And let us not be weary in well doing : for 'in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Page 362 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 400 - What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days...
Page 609 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 359 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Page 170 - Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity we have had our conversation in the world...
Page 206 - His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; "that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Page 160 - ... the devil goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.