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When a good man yields to temptation and falls from his stedfastness, God commonly hides his face from him for a term, and often for a considerable term, he sits in darkness is ready to give up his hope to conclude that he hath believed in vain never loved God or hated sin never passed from death into life.
A man should be unbiassed and not to be conquered by external things: he ought to admire himself alone, to feel confidence in his own spirit, and so to order his life as to be ready alike for good or bad fortune. Let not his confidence be without knowledge, nor his knowledge without stedfastness: let him always abide by what he has once determined, and let there be no erasure in his doctrine.
Judah's scattered sons are now desolate as ourselves; but they bend and bow to the laws and ways of other land we remain in the stern stedfastness of our own." "If then," returned the lady, "I give thee more money, how will it be applied?" "That is not a courteous question, but I will answer it.
Wanting courage to stand on the Lord's side, when it exposes them to reproach and sufferings, they suffer themselves to be overcome of evil, and fall from their stedfastness. These are Christians only in name. The real Christian possesseth a noble courage which raiseth him superior to every trial, and enableth him to subdue every enemy.
"You need say no more," answered Allworthy; "I will be explicit with you; I know what you lament; I have seen the young lady, and have discoursed with her concerning you. This I must insist on, as an earnest of your sincerity in all you have said, and of the stedfastness of your resolution, that you obey me in one instance.
Her continual agitations made her doubtful of her human feelings: she clung to that instance of her filial stedfastness. The day before Cecilia and her father left Mount Laurels for their season in Wales, Mr. Tuckham and Beauchamp came together to the house, and were closeted an hour with her father. Cecilia sat in the drawing-room, thinking that she did indeed wait, and had great patience.
These were the last words she said, and seemed the lightest until my hot brain made a harvest of them transcending thrice- told vows of love. Did they not mean, 'We two wait': therefore, 'The years are bondmen to our stedfastness. Could sweeter have been said? They might mean nothing!
As the townspeople gazed at the long, level lines, and heard the heavy, regular tramp beneath which the very pavement seemed to shake; as they saw each bronzed face with its look of stedfastness and assured courage, the open iron helmet on the head, the breastplate covered by a military coat reaching to the knees and allowing the body free play from the hips, the halberd grasped in the strong right hand, and the shield in the left, bearing the Saxon coat-of-arms, as these various points were noted and remarked on, each moment brought fresh courage to hearts that had been almost ready to despond.
It is not done by miracle. As it happened cruelly for Alvan, the woman who had become the radiant indistinct in his desiring mind was one whom he knew to be of a shivery stedfastness.
Lovelace, in earnest, advise me to think of going to London? And I looked at him with stedfastness. But nothing could I gather from his looks. At first, Madam, said he, I was for proposing London, as I was then more apprehensive of pursuit. But as your relations seem cooler on that head, I am the more indifferent about the place you go to.
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