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Jist gang awa 'back into that ither vout, my lord.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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Permit me to say* that I think the publication of these de - vout exercises other heart, with a sketch of her life, might contribute much to the establishment and comfort of many pious exercised christiausy who walk iu fear and darkneta«
Memoirs of the life of Martha Laurens Ramsay, who died in Charleston, S. C., on the 10th of June, 1811... With an appendix, containing extracts from her diary, letters, and other private papers. And also from letters written to her, by her father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776 Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 1812
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When his exalted foul, fiU'd with the love of hoiinefs, vented its rap - turous fenfations, in tears of holy joy, or m de - vout hymnsy which the guardian Ipirits diidain'd not to echO | in their concerts, I Infpir'd him with fuch fentimcnts of his future happinefs a$ it was poflible he could be ienfible of, while united to his duft.
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Reviewing his mercies to his church in our land, we are constrained to offer to him our de - vout praises.
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America 1789
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On the eve of thcfe proceffions, the gracious or de - vout intention of the monarch was proclaimed by the heralds.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ... 1788
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Thcpcdple generally d. vout are (as I am informed)
Anglorum speculum, or The worthies of England, in church and state 1684
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From this source proceeds that earnest longing to depart, such as Paul expressed: hence that delight - ful recollection of the pleasure enjoyed in those de - vout exercises, pleasure that has rendered the soul insensible to the empty delights of this world; hence the idea of those blessed moments which occupy the mind for fourteen yearg together, and which produ - ces, at the hour of death, a fervour not liable to sus - picion: for, my brethren, there is a fervour wliich I am disposed to suspect.
Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague Sutcliffe, Joseph, 1762-1856, tr 1812
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