Memoir of William A. Porter: A. M., with Selections from His WritingsNot published., 1832 - 115 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 86 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground, Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And bring forth boughs like a plant.
الصفحة 64 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
الصفحة 39 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
الصفحة 31 - THERE is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
الصفحة 51 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
الصفحة 85 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
الصفحة 84 - O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me ! If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
الصفحة 39 - Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
الصفحة 101 - to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.
الصفحة 31 - The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day ; And there may I, as vile as he, Wash all my sins away.