Horne Lyrieae and Divine Songs ...: With a MemoirLittle, Brown & Company, 1854 - 348 pages |
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... turns of thought , some new pious sentiments which may strike light and heat , and life into the understandings and hearts of those that hear you ? In the zeal of your ministrations , why may you not expect some bright and warm and ...
... turns of thought , some new pious sentiments which may strike light and heat , and life into the understandings and hearts of those that hear you ? In the zeal of your ministrations , why may you not expect some bright and warm and ...
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... turn and man- ner as is innocent , and can administer to its hap- piness , as in the wicked their evil passions will ... turns of thought , both according to the various constitutions of their bodies , and the more various studies and ...
... turn and man- ner as is innocent , and can administer to its hap- piness , as in the wicked their evil passions will ... turns of thought , both according to the various constitutions of their bodies , and the more various studies and ...
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... turn my heart aside from heark- ening to these divine dictates of thy Word and thy Spirit . Suffer not any of my native corruptions , nor the vanity of my imagination , to cast a mist over my eyes while I am searching after the ...
... turn my heart aside from heark- ening to these divine dictates of thy Word and thy Spirit . Suffer not any of my native corruptions , nor the vanity of my imagination , to cast a mist over my eyes while I am searching after the ...
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... turns wise men backward , and their knowledge becomes foolish . ' His transcendent eminence above all things is most nobly repre- sented , when he sits upon the circle of the earth , and the inhabitants thereof ... turn our PREFACE . lxxxvii.
... turns wise men backward , and their knowledge becomes foolish . ' His transcendent eminence above all things is most nobly repre- sented , when he sits upon the circle of the earth , and the inhabitants thereof ... turn our PREFACE . lxxxvii.
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With a Memoir Isaac Watts. words are vanity and emptiness . Let us turn our eyes now to some of the holy writings , where God is creating the world : How meanly do the best of the Gentiles talk and trifle upon this subject , when brought ...
With a Memoir Isaac Watts. words are vanity and emptiness . Let us turn our eyes now to some of the holy writings , where God is creating the world : How meanly do the best of the Gentiles talk and trifle upon this subject , when brought ...
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Page lxxxvii - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 337 - Tis the voice of the Sluggard; I heard him complain, You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.' As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed, Turns his sides and his shoulders and his heavy head. 'A little more sleep, and a little more slumber...
Page xlix - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 316 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so ; • Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
Page lxxiii - Give me the wings of faith to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Page 320 - How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Page 345 - Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best ; He paints the sky gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
Page lxxxiii - Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker...
Page 129 - Sweet was the journey to the sky, The wondrous prophet tried ; " Climb up the mount," says God, and " die ; " The prophet climb'd and died.
Page 139 - Lord, what shall earth and ashes do? We would adore our Maker too! From sin and dust, to thee we cry, The Great, the Holy, and the High.