Solitude Sweetened: Or Miscellaneous Mediatations on Various Religious Subjects Written in Distant Parts of the World

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S. Dodge, 1811 - 418 sivua

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Providence
29
True greatness
30
Disappointments
32
Experience
35
Contentment
37
Death
39
Communion with God what it is
42
The disposal of Providence always best
45
Love in its fourfold extension
46
Slander
48
Fear and other passions
51
Universal improvement
54
The souls enlargement on high
55
Affliction the lot of saints below
57
Private experience
61
All plenitude in Christ to answer all the wants of his people
63
Prayer and praise
66
On a blind beggar
70
Love in saints
71
Love in God
77
Dissolution
81
The death of the wicked
83
The Traveller
87
Grace in the blush sin not ashamed
90
3 Going to a fair
93
MEDIT Page 34 After sickness
96
Frames of soul variable
98
The unconcerned spectators
101
Death a blessing to good men
103
Mercy going before God makes meeting him a mercy
104
The necessity of afflictions
106
Saints unknown stars unseen
108
The excellent happiness of the blessed
110
Only a rumour heard of the triumphant state
112
Philosophy
115
A wicked thing to depart from God in the least
119
Who the great man is
122
We should sleep no longer than to refresh the body
125
Our only joy in view of the world to come
127
On the scriptures
129
True joy
132
One fruit of affliction
134
From the depth of afflictions we see stupendous things
136
Prayer
138
Little known of the bliss above
140
The divine lover
142
Eternity
144
On loving God
147
Wrath
148
Sensible communion with God sometimes enjoyed
150
Brevity of life
153
On the last day of a year
155
Saints have the greatest reason to rejoice
158
Indwelling sin
160
Events of Providence
164
More of God seen in Christ than in all the creation
167
God in Christ the study above
168
The world asleep
170
Still ignorant of God below
172
Nothing can purchase Christ from the soul
174
Torment
176
The souls growth
177
This life a vale of tears
181
The madness of the world in their choice
183
The approaching happiness of the saints
186
What we should expect and wait for 187
187
Causes of Humility
207
Harmony in Gods procedure with the church both of the Old and New Testament
210
A pleasant consideration
213
Crucifixion
215
All Gods ways equal
217
Selfflatterers
219
The heavenly vision assimilating
221
Still descriptions fall short of glory
224
Saints honourable
225
Mercies though apparently delayed come at the ap pointed time
227
The world deep rooted in the affections
229
True riches
231
The casting of the scales or balances
234
Affliction the common lot of the saints
235
The glorious fruits of sanctified affliction
238
God his peoples inheritance
243
Distance diminishes views
244
Jubilee
247
Gods knowledge
249
The Sabbath
252
Elijah and Elisha a dialogue
255
The company of the wicked corrupts
259
To escape wrath should silence under all afflictions
260
Adoption
262
Connexions
266
Degrees of nearness to God
270
Unbelief
272
Our short life should not give much concern
276
Faith
279
The threefold state
283
Corruption
286
MEDIT Page 114 Grace
287
Love and Immortality
289
Extremities
291
The astonishing portions
295
Noahs ark
297
Acquaintance
299
An argument
302
On being illused
304
The Bible a storehouse of instructions
307
Assurance
310
Our meditations cramped unless stretched beyond death
312
How to be rich in heaven
314
Revenge rejected
319
Whitsunday
325
Against murmuring at misfortunes
330
A caveat against excess of joy in prospect of any created good
332
The joy of salvation
335
On visits
338
The anguish of damnation
339
Sovereignty
341
The victory of Faith
344
The necessity of afflictions while we live
345
Gibeon making peace with Israel
347
On the authors first using glasses
350
On casting our care on God
354
The affection of a parent
356
On being created a peer
359
The singular advantages of poverty
370
A journey along the seashore
380
British statelottery
387
On the works of creation
390
A prospect of death
405
A state after death
407
A glance at the glories on the other side creation
409

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Sivu 269 - But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel...
Sivu 111 - ... eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Sivu 295 - Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Sivu 375 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Sivu 206 - If a man love me, my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Sivu 219 - The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
Sivu 14 - How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Sivu 304 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.
Sivu 17 - He who spared not his own Son but delivered him up to the death for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things...
Sivu 65 - a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, and as rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land,

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