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- 22:07, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,110) . . N 128. Against murmuring at misfortunes (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>If Providence is pleased to crush my comforts of any kind—shall I make my situation less comfortable by complaining? If God chas...") (current)
- 22:07, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,576) . . N 127. The coming judgment (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>A day of accounts will come, when the lease of life expires, and the great Proprietor of heaven and earth will reckon with all peo...") (current)
- 22:06, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+10,339) . . N 126. Revenge rejected (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Such is the corruption of human nature, such is the weakness of grace in this imperfect state, that, though most true believers ca...") (current)
- 22:05, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+8,743) . . N 125. How to be rich in heaven (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>If it is prudent to provide for the time to come—how much more so to provide for eternity! While to be rich in this world is the...") (current)
- 22:05, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,847) . . N 124. Our meditations cramped, (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p><strong> Our meditations cramped, unless stretched beyond death<br /> <br><br> </strong> Would any man envy that person's situatio...") (current)
- 22:04, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,099) . . N 123. Assurance (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Should not the follies of the world teach me wisdom? The worldling provides for time—and shall I not provide for eternity? But, ...") (current)
- 22:03, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,091) . . N 122. The Bible a store-house of instruction (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Man is not only a worm as to his origen—but a beast as to his knowledge. Hence the most sagacious of Adam's sons would be but fo...") (current)
- 22:03, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,529) . . N 121. On being ill-used (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as...") (current)
- 22:02, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,041) . . N 120. An argument (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Would any person be cast down for an affliction, enduring but for a day—if assured, that his whole after-life should be felicity...") (current)
- 22:02, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,729) . . N 119. Acquaintances (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>We are fond of contracting acquaintances with great and famous men, and sometimes lament the death of some before we were born, an...") (current)
- 22:02, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,879) . . N 118. Noah's ark (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>When the ark, which had floated many a day on a fearful flood, rested on the happy Ararat, and Noah, and the numerous creatures wh...") (current)
- 22:01, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,309) . . N 117. The astonishing portions (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>The treasures of kings have sometimes been so vast, as to become proverbial. And yet, what were they but gold or stones dug out of...") (current)
- 22:01, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,779) . . N 116. Extremities (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>God has in all ages been pleased to let matters come to an extremity, before he sent the deliverance; thereby teaching his people ...") (current)
- 22:00, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,422) . . N 115. Love and immortality (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Welcome change, that waits to begin my happiness, and put a termination to my troubles and pain. When this languor and lukewarmnes...") (current)
- 22:00, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,885) . . N 114. Grace (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p> Heavenly <strong>grace</strong> implanted in the soul, is the magic stone—which turns everything in our possession into a mo...") (current)
- 21:59, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,574) . . N 113. Corruption (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Happy they who have put off—not only mortality, but sin; and have put on—not only immortality, but perfection; and, in triumph...") (current)
- 21:59, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,630) . . N 112. The three-fold state (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Three changes go over the NATURAL world:<br /> 1. the black and dark night;<br /> 2. the fair and beauteous moon-shine;<br /> ...") (current)
- 21:58, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,926) . . N 111. Faith (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p><strong>Faith</strong> is a divine grace, and the very life of the soul below. Hence we are said to "walk by faith;" an...") (current)
- 21:58, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,131) . . N 110. Our short life should not give much concern (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>My mind is like a piece of ground, which, being overrun with weeds, no diligence can render quite clean; and no care can keep them...") (current)
- 21:57, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,776) . . N 109. Unbelief (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Few, I believe, read the history of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, passage through the Red Sea, and daily miraculous provision i...") (current)
- 21:57, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,525) . . N 108. Degrees of nearness to God (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There are different degrees of nearness to God, which the saints enjoy. One of these is essential to the very being of piety in th...") (current)
- 21:56, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,763) . . N 107. Connections (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Ignorant mortals are always rash in their conclusions on the conduct of Providence, being blinded in their views, and impatient un...") (current)
- 21:56, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,128) . . N 106. Adoption (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Every true Christian is a freeman; and while the rest of the world are slaves of Satan—the saints are kings and priests to God a...") (current)
- 21:55, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,405) . . N 105. To escape wrath should silence under all afflictions (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>When I contemplate a choice thought or two in my mind, I wonder that ever I can have a downcast countenance for all the trials whi...") (current)
- 21:55, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,447) . . N 104. The company of the wicked corrupts (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Under the law, one who touched any dead carcass was defiled. And one who had a running sore—even if he was to wash his clothes, ...") (current)
- 21:54, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,629) . . N 103. Elijah and Elisha, a dialogue (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>When the Lord would take up his dear servant Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, the pious Elisha attends his venerable master, and...") (current)
- 21:54, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+15,731) . . N 102. A glance into heavenly bliss (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>All at once I find myself in an unbounded flood of bliss, a spacious sea of glory—lost in wonder amidst ineffable divinities, an...") (current)
- 21:53, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,938) . . N 101. God's knowledge (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"No creature is hidden from Him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.&quo...") (current)
- 21:53, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,972) . . N 100. Jubilee (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Everything that was written of old, was written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the world have come. Now, Israel, when re...") (current)
- 21:53, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,103) . . N 99. Distance diminishes views (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p> Things at a distance seem vastly less than what they really are. The lofty hill that seems so large when we are at its base—so...") (current)
- 21:52, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,748) . . N 98. God his people's inheritance (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>The priests in Israel were allowed to approach nearer to God than others, and were enriched with many excellent privileges; yet th...") (current)
- 21:52, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+8,508) . . N 97. The glorious fruits of sanctified affliction (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"For our momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison!" (2 Corin...") (current)
- 21:51, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,195) . . N 96. Affliction the common lot of the saints (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>When I consider the conduct of Providence towards all his saints, I should rather be astonished that I am permitted to pass throug...") (current)
- 21:51, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,396) . . N 95. The casting of the scales or balances (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There is a real difference between the righteous and the wicked. The one is the heir of bliss, the other the child of the curse. B...") (current)
- 21:50, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,053) . . N 94. True riches (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"All things are yours!" (1 Corinthians 3:21)<br><br> What, Christian! do you complain of poverty? Do you cry out of need...") (current)
- 21:50, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,257) . . N 93. The world deeply rooted in the affections (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>How often, when reading the history of the children of Israel going up out of Egypt, have I condemned their longing for their fles...") (current)
- 21:49, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,631) . . N 92. Mercies, though apparently delayed, (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>How is it that thoughts rise in my mind about the promise proving abortive? or how can I conclude that the delays of Providence ar...") (current)
- 21:49, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,591) . . N 91. Saints honorable (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Among the failings with which the saints are chargeable surely this is one—Too low apprehensions of their own greatness—which ...") (current)
- 21:48, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,956) . . N 90. Still descriptions fall short of glory (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Oh! what must that happiness be, which is laid up on high! that glory that is reserved to be revealed!<br><br> When God sets forth...") (current)
- 21:48, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,462) . . N 89. The heavenly vision assimilating (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There are a thousand unfathomable depths in divine love. Who can open the everlasting treasuries, or look into these unseen glorie...") (current)
- 21:47, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,341) . . N 88. Self-flatterers (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good."...") (current)
- 21:46, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . 87. All God's ways equal (current)
- 21:46, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,929) . . N 87. All God's ways equal (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p> This is a truth at all times, and in all circumstances, to be acknowledged, that <em>all God's ways are just and equal</em>. Yes...")
- 21:46, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,007) . . N 86. Crucifixion (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There is a reciprocal crucifixion which I should desire and seek after. First, that the world may be crucified unto me. And, secon...") (current)
- 21:46, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,025) . . N 85. A pleasant consideration (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There is one consideration that may make me endure affliction with fortitude, and triumph in my trouble, which is—That what I en...") (current)
- 21:45, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,940) . . N 84. Harmony in God's procedure with the church (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>Wonderful are you, O Lord! and stupendous are your ways. The harmony that prevails, and the glory that shines in all your governme...") (current)
- 21:44, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,449) . . N 83. Causes of humility (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>As only in night dreams I cross impassable rivers, climb tremendous precipices, or fly in the open air; so it is only in spiritual...") (current)
- 21:44, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,281) . . N 82. The aggrandizing visit (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>If a fellow-creature, who has gathered together more riches than many of his acquaintance, or has attained to more honor, and has ...") (current)
- 21:44, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,956) . . N 81. Christ, and none but he, satisfies desires (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>There is a restless, a boundless desire in the mind of man for something which this world in all its glory is unable to bestow. Th...") (current)
- 21:43, 18 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,744) . . N 80. The excellency of religion (Created page with "'''Back to SOLITUDE SWEETENED''' ---- <p>The world may say as it will of the Christian religion—but it is only by it that the human mind is exalted, and men rise into et...") (current)
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