Parables

Short didactic story which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles

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The royal convert: or the force of truth . Being a wonderful and strange relation of the conversion of Varanes Prince of Persia, and two young ladies, to the Christian faith; their trials and sufferings on that account; of the strange death of one of the ladies; and of the Prince's success over his enemies, and converting at last his cruel father, and his whole Kingdom. Written in French by the messieurs of Port-Royal, and now newly translated into English.
Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.Date: 1709
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Walking amusements for chearful Christians; or Trades spiritualized To which are added, various pieces, in prose and verse: with a map of the roads to happiness and misery. By the author of Solitary Walks, &c.
Wright, George Esq.Date: 1775
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The royal convert: or the force of truth . Being a wonderful and strange relation of the conversion of Varanes Prince of Persia, and two young ladies, to the Christian faith; their trials and sufferings on that account; of the strange death of one of the ladies; and of the Prince's success over his enemies, and converting at last his cruel father, and his whole Kingdom. Written in French by the messieurs of Port-Royal, and now newly translated into English.
Arnauld, Antoine 1612-1694.Date: 1729
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The parable of a pilgrim . Taken from an Ancient Spiritual Writer.
Date: 1785
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Sunday reading. The beggarly boy. A parable
Date: 1795

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