 | 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...interest for her. Her Bible, prayer, and the society of religious persons, became her delight. She ' set her affections on things above, and not on things on the earth,' her life was hid with Christ in God :' and with such a spiritual appetite did .she feed on the bread... | |
 | Thomas Bell - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...earth. If the latter be called the Jerusalem above, it can only be in a figurative sense, as she sets her affections on things above, and not on things on the earth, Phil. iii. '2O. Col. iii. 2. But the former may be so denominated without any figure at all, being... | |
 | Henry Walter - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...utterly incapable, without this last proof of the uncertainty of all worldly happiness, of setting his affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. As for his people, in addition to their other sins, they had been guilty of conduct very closely resembling... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...was a right use made of this improvement in school-learning; and our young generation would set their affections on things above, and not on things on the earth; as we are advised and commanded in scripture. If they would place their desires on the most desirable,... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...was a right use made of this improvement in school-learning; and our young generation would set their affections on things above, and not on things on the earth; as we are advised and commanded in scripture. If they would place their desires on the most desirable,... | |
 | 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 206
...fallen foe, or exulting in mere worldly elevation. For herself and her family, she had long learned to " set her affections on things above, and not on things on the earth." Yet her patriotic spirit could not but share in the triumphs of those principles for which her beloved... | |
 | 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...seemed pleasant to her ; and in which her affections may have been too much interested. She wished now to " set her affections on things above, and not on things on the earth." The name of Marah would remind her of the afflictions which it had pleased God to afflict her with,... | |
 | Sarah Maria Fry - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...this stroke of his afflicting rod, she had herself, though bitter had been the lesson, at length beeu taught to set her affections on things above, and not on things on the eirth. As Margaret grew up she no longer needed to oppose the wishes of those dearest to her in following... | |
 | 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...interest for her. . Her Bible, prayer, aad the society of religious persons, became her delight. She " set her affections on things above, and not on things on the earth : she was dead, and her life hid with Christ in God." And with such a spiritual appetite did she feed... | |
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His afflicting rod, she had herself, though bitter had been the lesson, at length been taught to set her affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. 