Pleasant Pathways, Or, Persuasives to Early Piety: Continuing Explanations and Illustrations of the Beauty, Safety, and Pleasantness of a Religious Life, Being an Earnest Attempt to Persuade Young People of Both Sexes to Seek Happiness in the Love and Service of Jesus ChristCarlton & Porter, 1859 - 285 pages |
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ADMIRAL BYNG agony beauty Behold beloved youth BENEDICT ARNOLD benefactor bliss blood Carthage CHARLES SIMEON child Christ Christian conscience Creator cried death delight Divine duty dying earthly enjoyment eternal everlasting eyes faith father fear feel folly forsake FRANCIS QUARLES FREEBORN GARRETTSON Gelimer give glory God's grave grief guilty habits hand happiness heart heaven hell Holy Spirit hope hour illustration immortal impenitent infinite Jael Jesus king lake of fire Lamb of God light lips look Lord lusts mercy mighty mind moral Morocco Napoleon nature ness noble pain pardon passion path peace piety pious pleasure poet poor precious pride of character procrastination rapture reader Redeemer repent replied ruin Saladin salvation saved Saviour seek selfish sinner sins Sisera smile sorrow soul soul's suffer sweet terrible thee thou thought torment trembling unto victory voice WARREN HASTINGS wicked words young Young sinners
Popular passages
Page 35 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Page 30 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour.
Page 104 - Israel, Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; . and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Page 39 - Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way, But to act that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
Page 155 - And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. " And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame.
Page 186 - O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not : fear ye not me ? saith the Lord : will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it ; and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail ; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 155 - And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented...
Page 265 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day; and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 227 - God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Page 105 - Go then, earthly fame and treasure ! Come disaster, scorn, and pain ! In Thy service pain is pleasure, With Thy favor, loss is gain ; I have called Thee, Abba, Father...