The triumphs of grace exemplified in the diary, correspondence, experience and happy deaths of Prudence and Mary Jenkin [compiled by their surviving sisters and ed. by J. Stanley].

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Pagina 119 - I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers: My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Pagina 132 - What is this passing scene? A peevish April day! A little sun — a little rain, And then night sweeps along the plain. And all things fade away.
Pagina 106 - I have fought my way through ; I have finished the work thou didst give me to do ; " O that each from his Lord May receive the glad word, "Well and faithfully done ; Enter into my joy, and sit down on my throne.
Pagina 16 - LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And, when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Pagina 50 - ... sapphire blaze, Beyond our feeble sense. — Yet say not — who shall mount on high, To bring him from above ? For lo ! the Lord is always nigh The children of his love. The Saviour whom I long have sought, And would, but cannot see — And is he here? O wondrous thought ! And will he dwell with me? I ask not with my mortal eye To view the vision bright? I dare not see Thee, lest I die ; Yet Lord, restore my sight! Give me to see Thee, and to feel — The mental vision clear : The things unseen...
Pagina 12 - Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Pagina 122 - ... high advantages, which it already possesses. But now, laying all these aside ; supposing virtue to have brought you no advantage, but to have only engaged you in perpetual struggles with an evil world ; the Text suggests what is sufficient to answer every objection, and to silence every complaint: In due season you shall reap, if you faint not. It is not a loose encouragement, or a dubious hope, which is held forth to us. A direct and explicit declaration is made by the Spirit of God, that piety...
Pagina 32 - And then, never more shall the fears, The trials, temptations, and woes, Which darken this valley of tears, Intrude on my blissful repose.
Pagina 26 - MY God, I know, I feel thee mine, And will not quit my claim, Till all I have is lost in thine, And all renew'd I am. 2 I hold thee with a trembling hand, And will not let thee go, Till steadfastly by faith I stand, And all thy goodness know.
Pagina 52 - For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

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