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21:42, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,710)‎ . . N 79. The forgiveness of injuries ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- To forgive our enemies, and forget the injuries which have been done to us, is a noble, though very difficult duty. And from the o...") (current)
21:42, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,613)‎ . . N 78. Mercies abused ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Many are the mercies we receive from heaven. It is shocking to think how we convert these mercies into an occasion of sin, and mak...") (current)
21:41, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,629)‎ . . N 77. The confusion of the wicked at the general judgment ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Alas! men now sin with impunity and boldness—but when I dart my thoughts beyond the grave, and see the unrepentant sinning multi...") (current)
21:41, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,483)‎ . . N 76. Contradictions ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- I am ever guilty of some folly, some unaccountable folly. Either my faith condemns my fears, or my fears accuse my faith of folly....") (current)
21:40, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,596)‎ . . N 75. The spiritual miser ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Who is more an object of ridicule than the rich miser—who goes supperless to bed, because he will not give one farthing out of h...") (current)
21:40, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,073)‎ . . N 74. What we should expect and wait for ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- How are our joys heightened by hope. But sadly—sometimes our hopes may be false! And how vainly are our expectations pointed at ...") (current)
21:39, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,942)‎ . . N 73. The approaching happiness of the saints ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- To escape my present sorrow, and triumph in the midst of my present grief, let me suppose eternity is at hand, which may </e...") (current)
21:39, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,243)‎ . . N 72. The madness of the world in their choice ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Why does the world reject the Savior of the world? Why do they abhor him who is altogether lovely—and hate him who is the best F...") (current)
21:38, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,610)‎ . . N 71. This life a valley of tears ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Why have I mistaken this thorny wilderness—for a garden of flowers? Why have I mistaken this place of danger—for a palace of d...") (current)
21:37, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,051)‎ . . N 70. The soul's growth ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- When I look back a few years, I recollect, that my thoughts about common things were much contracted to what they are now. "W...") (current)
21:37, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,425)‎ . . N 69. Torment ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- People generally have a mistaken notion of torment. I shudder to hear of protracted agonies on the dying malefactor—to hear of t...") (current)
21:36, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,308)‎ . . N 68. Nothing can purchase Christ from the soul ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- "What is your Beloved more than another beloved?" was once asked of the spouse by those who knew him not so well as she ...") (current)
21:36, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,831)‎ . . N 67. Still ignorant of God below ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- It was a question proposed long ago, by a great teacher, in his divine lectures of God, "What is his name, and what is his So...") (current)
21:35, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,023)‎ . . N 66. The world asleep ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- The whole world is, with respect to the future eternal state, as it were, fast asleep. In this night of universal darkness and ign...") (current)
21:34, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,275)‎ . . N 65. Christ, the study above ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- I read with pleasure, O philosophers! your lectures, and commend your care to make the mute creation preach the power and wisdom o...") (current)
21:33, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,196)‎ . . N 64. More of God seen in Christ than in all the creation ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- There is a great noise among the educated men of our day, how God is to be seen and felt, as it were, in his handy-works. True, ...") (current)
21:32, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,904)‎ . . N 63. Events of providence ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Unbelief is my worst enemy, and most disturbs my mental quiet; and no wonder it so harasses me, when it attacks the very faithfuln...") (current)
21:31, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,470)‎ . . N 62. Indwelling sin ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- There is a mysterious wisdom in the way of God with his people—to whom he grants to know but in part, and to be renewed but in p...") (current)
21:30, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,820)‎ . . N 61. Saints have the greatest reason to rejoice ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- No wonder that Paul doubles his admonition to the converted Philippians, "Rejoice in the Lord always—again I say rejoice;&q...") (current)
21:29, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,165)‎ . . N 60. On the last day of the year ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Time is measured, and is alike at both ends; it began with a day, and will end with a day. Hence the evening and the morning were ...") (current)
20:43, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,618)‎ . . N 59. Brevity of life ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- "What is your life? You are a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away!" (James 4:14) What...") (current)
20:42, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,193)‎ . . N 58. Sensible communion with God sometimes enjoyed ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- Though every child in the family of heaven has real fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ; yet there are happy...") (current)
20:40, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,363)‎ . . N 57. Wrath ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- I have hitherto had faint views of divine wrath, though I have indeed had frightful apprehensions of fire; gloomy ideas of the bot...") (current)
20:37, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,893)‎ . . N 56. On loving God ‎ (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- To love you—is my honour. That I may love you—is my privilege. And in as far as I do love you—so far am I happy. Ho...") (current)
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)

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