Date: 1751
The hand one writes may be "like her mind, solid and above all flourish"
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Date: 1751
"I proceeded therefore--That I loved Familiar-letter-writing, as I had more than once told her, above all the species of writing: It was writing from the heart (without the fetters prescribed by method or study) as the very word 'Cor-respondence' implied"
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Date: 1762
"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."
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Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"
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Date: 1762
"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"
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Date: 1762
" I wait the reconciling kiss, / Which seals in purity and peace / My pardon on my heart."
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Date: 1762
" Peace by the Spirit's signet seal'd / On every faithful heart"
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Date: 1762
"With patience they the fire endure, / And thus express the Spirit's seal, / And witness thus, their hearts are pure."
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Date: 1762
"And stamp'd with Thy good Spirit's seal, / I love Thee, Lord, with all my heart"
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