Memoirs of Mr. William Veitch, and George Brysson

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W. Blackwood, 1825 - 540 páginas

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Página 180 - Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live : and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Página 2 - BE MERCIFUL unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Página 2 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Página 171 - ... that conscience ought not to be constrained, nor people forced in matters of mere religion. It has ever been directly contrary to our inclination, as we think it is to the interest of government, which it destroys by spoiling trade, depopulating countries and discouraging strangers; and finally, that it never obtained the end for which it was employed.
Página 343 - ... eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Página 2 - O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Página 343 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not ; I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make dark ness light before them, and crooked things straight.
Página 74 - vexing thoughts," is, I think, very expressive. It has been familiar to me from my childhood ; for it is to be found in the " Psalms in Metre," used in the churches (I believe I should say kirks) of Scotland, Psal.
Página 440 - ... and his arms to be riven forth and deleted out of the book of arms : so that his posterity may never have place, nor be able hereafter to bruik or enjoy any honours, offices, titles, or dignities within this realm in time coming ;" and his tacks, stedings, goods, and gear whatsoever remaining to him " be escheated" to our sovereign lord, to remain perpetually with his Highness in property ; which was pronounced for doom.
Página 53 - ... (Lazarus Redivivus, p. 17. ed. Glasgow, 1795.) " One great benefit (says Mr. Baxter) the plague brought to the" city ; that is, it occasioned the silenced ministers, more openly and laboriously to preach the gospel, to the exceeding comfort and profit of the people ; insomuch, that to this day the freedom of preaching, which this occasioned, cannot, by the daily guards of soldiers, nor by the imprisonments of multitudes, be restrained.

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