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... hope such is not the case with any of you . You listen gladly when any one teaches you out of the word of God ; and you think to your- selves that you do really love the Lord , and * The word " conversation " is so used in the English ...
... hope such is not the case with any of you . You listen gladly when any one teaches you out of the word of God ; and you think to your- selves that you do really love the Lord , and * The word " conversation " is so used in the English ...
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... hope we , too , shall try to think , every morning , of that morning when we shall wake from death , and see Him , our beloved Master ; and let us pray of Him , now , while we are yet awake and alive * Herbert's " Hymn to all Saints and ...
... hope we , too , shall try to think , every morning , of that morning when we shall wake from death , and see Him , our beloved Master ; and let us pray of Him , now , while we are yet awake and alive * Herbert's " Hymn to all Saints and ...
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... hope God will give you grace to study this hymn often by yourselves , and to have a clear understanding of it , and many good and pleasant thoughts of your own upon the subject . My principal object in ex- plaining some of these verses ...
... hope God will give you grace to study this hymn often by yourselves , and to have a clear understanding of it , and many good and pleasant thoughts of your own upon the subject . My principal object in ex- plaining some of these verses ...
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... hope you will listen attentively while I try to explain it . In the first place , it means a debt , something which we owe , and which it is only strict justice to require of us . Our duty to God is that debt which we owe to God ; and ...
... hope you will listen attentively while I try to explain it . In the first place , it means a debt , something which we owe , and which it is only strict justice to require of us . Our duty to God is that debt which we owe to God ; and ...
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... hope to dwell , And bid the night and world farewell . ' My soul , when I shake off this dust , Lord , in Thy arms I will entrust ; Oh ! make me Thy peculiar care , — Some heavenly mansion me prepare ! " Give me a place at Thy saints ...
... hope to dwell , And bid the night and world farewell . ' My soul , when I shake off this dust , Lord , in Thy arms I will entrust ; Oh ! make me Thy peculiar care , — Some heavenly mansion me prepare ! " Give me a place at Thy saints ...
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Page 31 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 4 - Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart, And with the angels bear thy part, Who all night long unwearied sing High praise to the eternal King.
Page 98 - All may of thee partake; Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, 'for thy sake,' Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Page 4 - I wake, I wake, ye heavenly choir ; May your devotion me inspire ; That I, like you, my age may spend, Like you may on my God attend.
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Page 31 - Forgive, me, LORD, for Thy dear SON, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
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Page 3 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.