The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the YearW. Baxter, 1827 - 367 pages |
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... throne : Even so , the world is thronging round to gaze On the dread vision of the latter days , Constrain'd to own Thee , but in heart Prepared to take Barabbas ' part : " Hosanna " now , to - morrow " Crucify , " The changeful burden ...
... throne : Even so , the world is thronging round to gaze On the dread vision of the latter days , Constrain'd to own Thee , but in heart Prepared to take Barabbas ' part : " Hosanna " now , to - morrow " Crucify , " The changeful burden ...
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... throne , By perfect robes of triumph known , And likest Him in look and tone , The holy Stephen kneels , With stedfast gaze , as when the sky Flew open to his fainting eye , Which , like a fading lamp , flash'd high , Seeing what death ...
... throne , By perfect robes of triumph known , And likest Him in look and tone , The holy Stephen kneels , With stedfast gaze , as when the sky Flew open to his fainting eye , Which , like a fading lamp , flash'd high , Seeing what death ...
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... throne of purity ! From these our proud yet grovelling hearts Hide not thy mild forgiving eye . Did not the Gentile Church find grace , Our mother dear , this favour'd day ? With gold and myrrh she sought thy face , Nor didst Thou turn ...
... throne of purity ! From these our proud yet grovelling hearts Hide not thy mild forgiving eye . Did not the Gentile Church find grace , Our mother dear , this favour'd day ? With gold and myrrh she sought thy face , Nor didst Thou turn ...
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... throne of pride ; While , answering Thy victorious call , The Saints his spoils divide , This world of thine , by him usurp'd too long , Now opening all her stores to heal thy servants ' wrong . So when the first - born of thy foes Dead ...
... throne of pride ; While , answering Thy victorious call , The Saints his spoils divide , This world of thine , by him usurp'd too long , Now opening all her stores to heal thy servants ' wrong . So when the first - born of thy foes Dead ...
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... throne , Stars , His guiding hand that own , Flowers , that grow beneath our feet , Stones in earth's dark womb that rest , High and low in choir shall meet , Ere His Name shall be unblest . Lord , by every minstrel tongue Be thy praise ...
... throne , Stars , His guiding hand that own , Flowers , that grow beneath our feet , Stones in earth's dark womb that rest , High and low in choir shall meet , Ere His Name shall be unblest . Lord , by every minstrel tongue Be thy praise ...
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Page 163 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire ; and it sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost ; and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Page 8 - And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep : for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Page 109 - And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. 25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. 26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Page 75 - So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Page 355 - Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.
Page 141 - I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 6 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
Page 164 - WHEN God of old came down from heaven, in power and wrath he came; before his feet the clouds were riven, half darkness and half flame.
Page 331 - And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God : and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Page 243 - He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt ; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.