Download or read book The Memoir of James Plumridge of West Wycombe To which is Added a Discourse Preached to Improve His Death and a Sketch of the Life of James Treacher written by Benjamin North and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of John Lovering Cooke written by Charles H. H. Wright and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Download or read book Memoir of John Lovering Cooke Formerly Gunner in the Royal Artillery With a Sketch of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 8 Up to the Final Capture of Lucknow written by Charles Henry Hamilton Wright and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autobiography of Rev James B Finley Or Pioneer Life in the West written by James Bradley Finley and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. RELIGIOUS LIFE CONTINUED. Gloomily and sadly I traveled on in silence, under the mountain pressure of my spirit-burden, occasionally answering a question from my brother. After having arrived at our place of camping, we spanceled, belled, turned out our horses, and started to the woods in different directions, to hunt. Having obtained what I desired, which was to be alone--for the heart can only know and appreciate its own bitterness--I realized, if possible, an increasing intensity to my feelings of wretchedness, and my excited imagination filled the woods with demons of darkness. I thought I could feel their fearful proximity, and once turned round to see if I could not discover them on my track. Just then this temptation was suggested to my mind: "You are one of the reprobates; Christ never died for you; and God has raised you up, as he did Pharoah, to show his mighty power, in your eternal destruction. You had better kill yourself with your gun, and know the worst of your wretched state; for the longer you live, the more sin you will commit, and, hence, the greater will be your damnation." This temptation came with such tremendous force, it seemed irresistible, and I was on the point of yielding, when, doubtless, my heavenly Father, in mercy, interposed a thought of my family. "How," thought I, "will my dear wife and parents feel, when my body is found, perhaps mangled and torn by wild beasts?" Again the tempter assailed me with still greater power; so much so, that I came to the dreadful conclusion of falling by my own hand. While in the very act of preparation to commit the fatal deed, my blessed Lord--who has no pleasure in the death of a sinner-- again interposed, and the following words came to my mind, as sensibly...
