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Pagina 6
... . 132 THE SABBATH ... DEATH AND ETERNITY HEAVEN ... UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE ... 135 ... ... ... ... ... ... 137 ... ... ... ... ... ... 142 ... ... ... ... ... 144 PRAYER ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 145 , 264 MORAL DIGNITY FREEDOM OF ...
... . 132 THE SABBATH ... DEATH AND ETERNITY HEAVEN ... UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE ... 135 ... ... ... ... ... ... 137 ... ... ... ... ... ... 142 ... ... ... ... ... 144 PRAYER ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 145 , 264 MORAL DIGNITY FREEDOM OF ...
Pagina 28
... heaven a martyr's palm . Christian Year . Discretion has large and extended views , and , like a well - formed eye , commands a whole horizon.— Addison . Murmur at nothing . If our ills are irreparable it is ungrateful ; if remediless ...
... heaven a martyr's palm . Christian Year . Discretion has large and extended views , and , like a well - formed eye , commands a whole horizon.— Addison . Murmur at nothing . If our ills are irreparable it is ungrateful ; if remediless ...
Pagina 79
... heaven . Let the blessed light of Jesus ' countenance shine in . It will turn tears into rainbows . When life has always been calm and unvarying , our private prayers shape almost into a form . We only want God's blessing on those we ...
... heaven . Let the blessed light of Jesus ' countenance shine in . It will turn tears into rainbows . When life has always been calm and unvarying , our private prayers shape almost into a form . We only want God's blessing on those we ...
Pagina 80
Maxims. Humble we must be , if to heaven we go ; High is the roof there , but the gate is low . Herrick . Contentment is the philosopher's stone , which turns all it toucheth into gold : the poor man is rich with it , the rich man is ...
Maxims. Humble we must be , if to heaven we go ; High is the roof there , but the gate is low . Herrick . Contentment is the philosopher's stone , which turns all it toucheth into gold : the poor man is rich with it , the rich man is ...
Pagina 81
... heaven's gate for our deliverance from everlasting woe . If the Christians of the present day would resolve never to have " a visit without prayer , " or in which prayer could not be appropriately offered , it might save our country for ...
... heaven's gate for our deliverance from everlasting woe . If the Christians of the present day would resolve never to have " a visit without prayer , " or in which prayer could not be appropriately offered , it might save our country for ...
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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.