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20:37, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,923)‎ . . N 55. Eternity ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Mathematicians have never attempted to measure eternity, or the duration of the world to come. Here the finite mind has no idea of...") (current)
20:36, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,023)‎ . . N 54. The divine lover ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- How many great geniuses have employed their noble talents on subjects of human love! And by their flowery expressions, pitch up th...") (current)
20:34, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,797)‎ . . N 53. Little known of the bliss above ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- I verily believe the saints here are like a stranger come from the skirts of the kingdom to the chief city, who never saw anything...") (current)
20:33, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,067)‎ . . N 52. Prayer ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- No sooner is the child born, than he breathes; no sooner is Paul converted, than, behold! he prays. O incomparable privi...") (current)
20:32, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,158)‎ . . N 51. From the depth of afflictions we see stupendous things ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Christians, when shut up in the depths of afflictions, "when set in dark places as the dead, when hedged about that they ca...") (current)
20:31, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,472)‎ . . N 50. One fruit of affliction ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- The world complains of affliction as the worst thing that can befall a man—but for my part I never shall. Were it as bad as we a...") (current)
20:29, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,927)‎ . . N 49. True joy ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Sometimes, indeed, I am amazed at the joy of sinners, while those who have the greatest cause of exultation are rather too sad. Ye...") (current)
20:29, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,351)‎ . . N 48. On the scriptures ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- An entertaining history, or a striking description of some famous battle will challenge our attention, and cause us to light anoth...") (current)
20:28, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,509)‎ . . N 47. Our only joy in the world to come ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Truly, O worldlings! I pity you. Now you seem to be great and full of fun. But, though you shine on the outside, there is an awful...") (current)
20:26, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,315)‎ . . N 46. We should sleep no longer than to refresh the body ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Long sleep in any man is blame-worthy—but in a candidate for glory it is a sinful. I may indeed rise in time to manage my tempor...") (current)
20:25, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,980)‎ . . N 45. Who the great man is ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- He who bears a commission from his king, that is, a noble, an ambassador, or a minister of state—is accounted a great man. Now, ...") (current)
20:14, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,240)‎ . . N 44. A wicked thing to depart from God in the least ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- The Lord is with us while we are with him—but when we forsake him, he hides his face, and departs from us, that we may not depar...") (current)
20:13, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,648)‎ . . N 43. Science ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- True science is a study much commended. Where the works of nature are narrowly surveyed, they fill the mind with wonder and deligh...") (current)
20:11, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,171)‎ . . N 42. Only a rumor heard of the triumphant state ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- This thought is now come into my mind—that the triumphant state of glory is but little understood, even after all the divine des...") (current)
20:10, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,687)‎ . . N 41. The excellent happiness of the blessed ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Time is short, and eternity is long! Yet, in this short time, I must prepare for long eternity! O! what a duration is before me! B...") (current)
20:09, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,127)‎ . . N 40. Saints unknown, stars unseen ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- As there are stars in the sparkling skies of heaven of different magnitudes and glory—so there are saints of different stations ...") (current)
20:08, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,900)‎ . . N 39. The necessity of afflictions ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- I complain without a cause, seeing it is good for me to be afflicted. Whatever be food to the soul, surely affliction is a good me...") (current)
20:07, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,414)‎ . . N 38. Mercy going before God, makes meeting him a mercy ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- God and I must meet; there is a day appointed for it; and surely the thoughts thereof would be like death, and worse, were I not a...") (current)
20:06, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,089)‎ . . N 37. Death a blessing to godly men ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Why so much complaint of death? It is true, death is the fruit of sin, for by sin, death came into the world. But it is also true,...") (current)
20:05, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,262)‎ . . N 36. The unconcerned spectators ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Sorrow is the continual attendant on human life. Every day, to some poor sufferer, is darkened with distress, and yet the spectato...") (current)
20:04, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,055)‎ . . N 35. Frames of soul variable ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- It is the greatest display of spiritual folly to put any confidence in a holy frame of mind. A frame is a certain heavenly disposi...") (current)
15:40, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,441)‎ . . N 34. After sickness ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- What shall I render unto the Lord for all his kindness unto me! The sorrows of death compassed me about, the pains of the grave to...") (current)
15:32, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,992)‎ . . N 33. Going to a fair ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- The heavenly mind has this advantage, that it can spiritualize every business, and moralize all occurrences of life. As, then, I...") (current)
15:31, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,763)‎ . . N 32. Grace in the blush, sin not ashamed ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- It is one of the most surprising things that I have ever observed, that sanctity should be ashamed—but iniquity not ashamed to d...") (current)
15:30, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,703)‎ . . N 31. The Traveler ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- 'Gentlemen of taste' frequently travel abroad: and it is so much in vogue to wander over some part of the world once in life, that...") (current)
15:28, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,385)‎ . . N 30. The death of the wicked ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- The wicked and the righteous live a different life, and die a different death. Have not my eyes beheld the melancholy scene?—one...") (current)
15:27, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,648)‎ . . N 29. Death ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- There is a lesson which concerns the whole world, which few of the world lay to heart; and that is—that all men are mor...") (current)
15:27, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+7,880)‎ . . N 28. Love in God ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Love in the saints is a noble grace—but superlatively glorious in God. On it angels look, and admire; and I should look, and a...") (current)
15:25, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+9,022)‎ . . N 27. Love in saints ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Love is a passion planted in the human bosom, which once was wholly a holy seed—but is now turned into the degenerate plant of a...") (current)
15:24, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,118)‎ . . N 26. On a blind beggar ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Poor man! you walk in darkness, though presented on every side with noon-day beams. You must commit yourself to your fellow-creatu...") (current)
15:23, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,743)‎ . . N 25. Prayer and praise ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Prayer and praise is the employment of the two families of earth and heaven—the church-militant and the church-triumphant. Praye...") (current)
15:22, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,038)‎ . . N 24. All plenitude in Christ, to answer ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- "From his fullness we have all received one gracious gift after another." (John 1:16) All plenitude is in Christ...") (current)
15:21, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,902)‎ . . N 23. Private experience ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- O the wonderful condescension of God! If he looks into heaven, among thrones and dominions, seraphim and cherubim—it is humility...") (current)
12:59, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+8,972)‎ . . N 22. Affliction the lot of saints below ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- While I am mortal, I must taste of the waters of Mara; drink of the cup of adversity; and swim the tempestuous ocean. It...") (current)
12:58, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,786)‎ . . N 21. The soul's enlargement on high ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Here the soul, confined to to its clay tenement, is like a royal personage in prison, whose grand attendance is not seen, because ...") (current)
12:57, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,941)‎ . . N 20. Universal improvement ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- "Make good use of every opportunity you have, because these are evil days." (Ephesians 5:16) As there is not a m...") (current)
12:56, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,638)‎ . . N 19. Fear and other passions ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Four things I should fear—God, myself, temptation, and sin. I should fear God, for his greatness; self, for its infirmity; tempt...") (current)
12:54, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,734)‎ . . N 18. Slander ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- What a wicked world do we live in! If happy and successful—we are envied; if miserable—we are despised; and in every condition...") (current)
12:53, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,360)‎ . . N 17. Love in its fourfold extension ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- "I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the <...") (current)
12:52, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,109)‎ . . N 16. The disposal of Providence always best ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Why would I still take the government of myself out of your hand, and choose according to my fond desires? Can my ignorance pene...") (current)
23:17, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3)‎ . . 15. Communion with God, what it is ‎ (current)
23:17, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,602)‎ . . N 15. Communion with God, what it is ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Communion with God is an expression often in my mouth—but which sinks no further. I may know the word—but neither its b...")
23:16, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,664)‎ . . N 14. Death ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- There is a lesson which concerns the whole world, which few of the world lay to heart; and that is—that all men are mor...") (current)
23:15, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,644)‎ . . N 13. Contentment ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- What would you have, O my soul! to make you content? You have much in hand, and more in hope. You have the comforts of life, and t...") (current)
23:14, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,499)‎ . . N 12. Experience ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- How good is it to trust in God, and wait for kindness at his hand! When hope is gone, and all endeavours rendered useless, his wat...") (current)
23:14, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,200)‎ . . N 11. Disappointments ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- How uncertain are our best-founded expectations from created things! Nothing seemingly more sure; the time when, the place where, ...") (current)
23:13, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,839)‎ . . N 10. True greatness ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Many are reckoned great by the world, and are often envied by their inferiors, who are yet ignorant of what renders man truly grea...") (current)
23:12, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,326)‎ . . N 9. Providence ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- How manifold are the mercies of God, and how surprising the scene of adorable Providence! Here wheels revolve within a wheel, and ...") (current)
23:07, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,226)‎ . . N 8, Worldly losses and misfortunes universal ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- "Mankind is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly upward." (Job 5:7) Convene, you mournful throng, and vent y...") (current)
23:07, 17 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,775)‎ . . N 7. Feeble nature ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Oh! how do I groan in this body of clay—this clog of humanity! When I would serve God with gladness, feeble nature hinders me; ...") (current)

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