Henry Martyn
Henry Martyn
Henry Martynwas an Anglican priest and missionary to the peoples of India and Persia. Born in Truro, Cornwall, he was educated at Truro Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. A chance encounter with Charles Simeon led him to become a missionary. He was ordained a priest in the Church of England and became a chaplain for the British East India Company...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth18 February 1781
dearest english good life paul
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
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The state of things in India begins to assume somewhat of an alarming aspect. Englishmen taking up arms against Englishmen! Regiments arc called from Bengal, Bombay, and the Cape, to reduce the rebel army. Whereunto will this grow?
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Seldom a day passes but I thank God for the freedom from earthly care which I enjoy.
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How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
honesty men want
The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.
christ
I see no business in life but the work of Christ.
country attachment earth
It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.
country men guilt
The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions his; Just heav'n! reserve your choicest plagues for him, And blast the venal wretch.
pleasure eternal
God and eternal things are my only pleasure.
soul needs driven
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.
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Now let me burn out for God.
beautiful art pride
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!
design may should
Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.
prayer men may
Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!