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Pagina 28
... Lord Burleigh . Meek souls there are , who little dream Their daily strife an angel's theme ; Or that the rod they bear so calm Shall prove in heaven a martyr's palm . Christian Year . Discretion has large and extended views , and ...
... Lord Burleigh . Meek souls there are , who little dream Their daily strife an angel's theme ; Or that the rod they bear so calm Shall prove in heaven a martyr's palm . Christian Year . Discretion has large and extended views , and ...
Pagina 77
... Lord reigneth , " and while we contend , He decides and governs . - Dr . Hamilton . Of all moral virtues , humility is the most beautiful . -Owen Feltham . I know no duty in religion more generally agreed on , nor more justly required ...
... Lord reigneth , " and while we contend , He decides and governs . - Dr . Hamilton . Of all moral virtues , humility is the most beautiful . -Owen Feltham . I know no duty in religion more generally agreed on , nor more justly required ...
Pagina 79
... Lord , O Lord , have mercy upon me ! " " The hand of the Lord was with him . " - Luke i . 66 . That is , the hand of God and the help of God ; the love and favour of God to support him , the power and providence of God to protect and ...
... Lord , O Lord , have mercy upon me ! " " The hand of the Lord was with him . " - Luke i . 66 . That is , the hand of God and the help of God ; the love and favour of God to support him , the power and providence of God to protect and ...
Pagina 81
... Lord Jesus to make one of the guests . To be ashamed to speak His name at our tables and in our parlours among invited guests is a strange inconsistency , when we depend upon His welcome at heaven's gate for our deliverance from ...
... Lord Jesus to make one of the guests . To be ashamed to speak His name at our tables and in our parlours among invited guests is a strange inconsistency , when we depend upon His welcome at heaven's gate for our deliverance from ...
Pagina 99
... Lord Jehovah there is everlasting strength , even while we have not the experience of the communications of it , is a cordial against fainting . — Halyburton . Dost thou pray with all thy might ? then , though thy might be weak in ...
... Lord Jehovah there is everlasting strength , even while we have not the experience of the communications of it , is a cordial against fainting . — Halyburton . Dost thou pray with all thy might ? then , though thy might be weak in ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 17 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Pagina 126 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Pagina 128 - Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea, And laden souls by thousands meekly stealing, Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
Pagina 13 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 39 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Pagina 1 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Pagina 261 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, Angels came and ministered unto him.
Pagina 131 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness ; and he that prays to God with an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him...
Pagina 130 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.