The Posthumous Works of the Late Learned and Reverend Isaac Watts, D.D.: In Two Volumes. Compiled from Papers in Possession of His Immediate Successors:T. Becket, Adelphi, Strand; and J. Bew, Pater-Noster Row., 1779 - 306 pagine |
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Pagina 26
... Providence in honouring me with the friendship of fuch a perfon . I can truly fay , your name was in the number of those which were dearest to me , long before I ever faw you . Yet fince I have known you , I cannot but find some- thing ...
... Providence in honouring me with the friendship of fuch a perfon . I can truly fay , your name was in the number of those which were dearest to me , long before I ever faw you . Yet fince I have known you , I cannot but find some- thing ...
Pagina 27
... Providence caft my lot near you , I should joyfully have embraced the moft frequent opportunities of improving my understanding and warming my heart by converf- ing with you , which would furely have been greatly for my advantage as a ...
... Providence caft my lot near you , I should joyfully have embraced the moft frequent opportunities of improving my understanding and warming my heart by converf- ing with you , which would furely have been greatly for my advantage as a ...
Pagina 32
... providence ; may I be enabled to know the will of God in it . Infinite wisdom hath of late feen fit to exercise me with many disappointments in my worldly affairs , I must not therefore venture to begin printing till fuch a number be ...
... providence ; may I be enabled to know the will of God in it . Infinite wisdom hath of late feen fit to exercise me with many disappointments in my worldly affairs , I must not therefore venture to begin printing till fuch a number be ...
Pagina 33
... Providence , recovered to fome degree of ftrength and chearfulness ; and will , I hope , be given back to our importunate prayers . She was fo dear to my wife and me , being indeed like a fifter in the family , that we are both very ...
... Providence , recovered to fome degree of ftrength and chearfulness ; and will , I hope , be given back to our importunate prayers . She was fo dear to my wife and me , being indeed like a fifter in the family , that we are both very ...
Pagina 49
... Providence put into my hands . Not that my grief has been unallayed , or my faith altogether unactive ; but the flow of vari- ous affections has agitated me strangely , and poffef- fed my mind night and day to fuch a degree as poor ...
... Providence put into my hands . Not that my grief has been unallayed , or my faith altogether unactive ; but the flow of vari- ous affections has agitated me strangely , and poffef- fed my mind night and day to fuch a degree as poor ...
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Pagina 274 - And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Pagina 280 - For our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While 'we look not at the things which are feen, but at the things which are not feen; for the things which are feen, are temporal ; but the things which are not feen, are eternal, 2 Cor.
Pagina 79 - I am this day to have the privilege of addressing you, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your courtesy and attention in listening to me.
Pagina 242 - Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid ; be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Pagina 232 - The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast Thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
Pagina 228 - I wish to understand the cause : but, while / would fill my mouth with arguments upon it, yet, says he, behold! I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left-hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right-hand, that I cannot see him.
Pagina 164 - ... he would choose to make use of your style. If what I have said seems to have no weight with you, yet you cannot be ignorant what a load of scandal lies on the dissenters, only for their imagined aversion to poetry. You remember what Dr. Speed says : "So far hath schism...
Pagina 94 - It was in my sister's death," said Mrs. Rowe, when giving the account, "that my father was to be tried ; but it was I that was taken sick : and when the physicians let them know my great danger, and the little hope they had of my recovery, this dear sister came to me with a visible concern, and earnestly besought me to tell her whether I was ready and willing to die if God should call me from them by this sickness, for...
Pagina 248 - head is fick, and the whole heart faint ; from " the fole of the foot even to the head, there is *' no foundnefs in it, but wounds and bruifes, *' and putrifying fores,
Pagina 158 - There were some of the Independents heretofore called Brownists, some of whom were very irregular in the management of church affairs, but they are not to be found now : the tenets of rigid Independents are ; 1st, That every church hath all the power of governing itself in itself, and that every thing done in a church must be by the majority of the votes of the brethren. 2d, That every church has its minister ordained to itself, and that he cannot administer the ordinances to any other people, and...