| Jabez (uncle.) - 1799 - 242 pages
...window, I heard William, as he worked, singing that beautiful hymn of Cowper's beginning : — "'Tis my happiness below Not to live without the cross,...inscribed upon them, all, This is happiness to me. I saw my mother, who had been busily arranging the tea-table against my father's return, stop to listen.... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain, * John, xiii. J. xxxnr. • WELCOME CROSS. 1 'TIS my happiness below Not to live without the cross ; But the Saviour's pow'r to know, Sanctifying ev'ry loss. Trials must and will befall ; But with humble faith to see Love... | |
| John Newton - 1808 - 712 pages
...work in vain ; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. XVI. C. Welcome Cross. 1 Tis my happiness below Not to live without the cross, But the Saviour's pow'r to know, Sanctifying ev'ry loss-: Trials must and will befall ; But with humble faith to see... | |
| John Dobell - 1810 - 540 pages
...below J. Not to live without the cross' ; But the Saviour's pow'r to know, Sanctifying ev'ry loss. 3 Trials must and will befall ; But — -with humble faith, to see Love inscrib'd upon them all— • This is happiness to me. 3 God, in Israel, sows the seeds Of affliction,... | |
| John Newton - Theology - 1810 - 726 pages
...work in vain ; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. XVI. C. Welcome Crott. 1 'Tis my happiness below Not to live without the cross, But the Saviour's pow'r to know, Sanctifying ev'ry loss : Trials must and will befall ; But with humble faith to see... | |
| John Dobell - Hymns, English - 1810 - 538 pages
...below i Not to live without the cross ; But the Saviour's pow'r to know, Sanctifying ev'ry loss. 2 Trials must and will befall ; But— with humble faith, to see Love inscrib'd upon them all — . This is happiness to me. 3 God, in Israel, scnVs the seeds Of affliction,... | |
| William Bengo Collyer - Hymns - 1812 - 980 pages
...is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. HYMN DCCCXLVII. . Welcome Cross. , COWPER. 1 nniS my happiness below, -"- Not to live without the cross....know, Sanctifying every loss : Trials must and will befal ; But with humble faith to see Love inscrib'd upon them all, This is happiness to me. 2 God,... | |
| David Ramsay - 1815 - 286 pages
...stubbornness prevent it not, will work for my eternal welfare, and every cross be made a step to glory 'Tis my happiness below, Not to live without the cross ; But the Saviour's love to know, Sanctifying every loss. Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer,... | |
| John Dobell - Hymns, English - 1815 - 560 pages
...earthly joy, "That thou may'st seek thy all in me." 625. 7s. Comper. Trials.,..Heb. xii. 8. 1 'TIS my happiness below Not to live without the cross ; But the Saviour's pow'r to know, Sanctifying ev'ry loss. 2 Trials must and will befall; But — with humble faith, to... | |
| Martha Laurens Ramsay - 1815 - 288 pages
...stubbornness prevent it not, will work for my eternal welfare, and every cross be made a step to glory "Tis my happiness beloW, Not to live without the cross ; But the Saviour's love to know, Sanctifying every loss. Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer,... | |
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