Essays Out of HoursLongmans, Green, and Company, 1907 - 160 pages |
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Page 105 - As I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.
Page 85 - I was again much under this question, WHETHER THE BLOOD OF CHRIST WAS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE MY SOUL? in which doubt I continued from morning, till about seven or eight at night: and at last, when I was, as it were, quite worn out with fear, lest it should not lay hold on me, these words did sound suddenly within my heart: HE IS ABLE. But methought, this word ABLE, was spoke loud unto me; it showed a GREAT WORD, it seemed to be writ in GREAT LETTERS...
Page 87 - About this time, the state and happiness of these poor people at Bedford was thus, in a kind of a vision, presented to me. I saw as if they were on the sunny side of some high mountain, there refreshing themselves with the pleasant beams of the sun, while I was shivering and shrinking in the cold, afflicted with frost, snow, and dark clouds.
Page 87 - About this wall I thought myself to go again and again, still prying as I went, to see if I could find some way or passage by which I might enter therein ; but none could I find for some time. At the last I saw, as it were, a narrow gap, like a little door-way, in the wall, through which I attempted to pass. Now the passage being very strait and narrow, I made many offers to get in, but all in vain, even until I was well nigh quite beat out by striving to get in.
Page 87 - as if they were on the sunny side of some high mountain, there refreshing themselves with the pleasant beams of the sun, while I was shivering and shrinking in the cold, afflicted with frost, snow, and dark clouds. Methought also, betwixt me and them, I saw a wall that did compass about this mountain : now through this wall my soul did greatly desire to pass ; concluding, that if I could, I would even go into the very midst of them, and there also comfort myself with the heat of their sun.
Page 94 - I was now so taken with the love and mercy of God, that I remember I could not tell how to contain till I got home : I thought I could have spoken of his love, and have told of his mercy to me, even to the very crows that sat upon the ploughed lands before me...
Page 85 - God did not play in convincing of me; the devil did not play in tempting of me; neither did I play when I sunk as into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me: wherefore I may not play in my relating of them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was: he that liketh it, let him receive it; and he that does not, let him produce a better.
Page 148 - I grew furious through delay, and, with the heart of a fiend, cursed the days, and the hours, and the bitter moments, which seemed to lengthen and lengthen as her gentle life declined — like shadows in the dying of the day. But one autumnal evening, when the winds lay still in heaven, Morella called me to her bed-side.
Page 87 - About this wall, I bethought myself to go again and again, still prying as I went, to see if I could find some way or passage by which I might enter therein ; but none could I find for some time. At the last I saw, as it were, a narrow gap, like a little doorway in the wall, through which I attempted to pass. Now, the passage being very strait and narrow, I made many...
Page 92 - ... in me for a while. At last, that about Esau's birthright began to wax weak, and withdraw, and vanish ; and this about the sufficiency of grace prevailed with peace and joy.