Pleasant Pathways: Or, [P]ersuasives to Early Piety: Containing 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 of Jesus ChristCarlton & Porter, 1859 - 296 pages |
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ADMIRAL BYNG agony beauty Behold beloved youth BENEDICT ARNOLD benefactor bliss blood Carthage CHARLES SIMEON Christ Christian conscience Creator cried death delight Divine duty dying earthly eternal everlasting exclaim excuse eyes faith father fear feel flame flowers folly forsake FRANCIS QUARLES FREEBORN GARRETTSON GELIMER give glory God's grave grief guilt 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 Napoleon nature noble pain pardon passion path peace piety pious pleasure poet poor precious pride of character procrastination promise rapture reader Redeemer repent replied ruin Saladin salvation saved Saviour seek selfish sinner sins Sisera smile sorrow soul suffer sweet terrible thee thou thought torment trembling unto victory voice WARREN HASTINGS wicked words young Young sinners
Popular passages
Page 31 - 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 151 - 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 100 - 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 35 - Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way, But to act that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
Page 184 - 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 275 - LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. 21 (For Isaiah had said: Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Page 263 - ... 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 101 - 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...
Page 157 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 110 - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.