Our Christian classics: readings from the best divines, with notices biographical and critical, by J. Hamilton, Volumes 1-2J. Nisbet, 1859 - Christian literature, English |
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... desire my successor not only to let all dilapidations fall upon these considerations , and also in favour of the poor , upon whom chiefly my goods are bestowed in this testament , but also that he will be a conti- nual defender and ...
... desire my successor not only to let all dilapidations fall upon these considerations , and also in favour of the poor , upon whom chiefly my goods are bestowed in this testament , but also that he will be a conti- nual defender and ...
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... desire them to be good to my poor neigh- bours of the parish , being desirous to buy such things as they stand most in need of . " ... By far the greatest preacher of the Elizabethan age was HENRY SMITH , a young minister belonging to a ...
... desire them to be good to my poor neigh- bours of the parish , being desirous to buy such things as they stand most in need of . " ... By far the greatest preacher of the Elizabethan age was HENRY SMITH , a young minister belonging to a ...
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... desires and affections correspondent unto that which the words con- tain , allayeth all kind of base and earthly cogitations , banish- eth and driveth away those evil secret suggestions which our invisible enemy is always apt to ...
... desires and affections correspondent unto that which the words con- tain , allayeth all kind of base and earthly cogitations , banish- eth and driveth away those evil secret suggestions which our invisible enemy is always apt to ...
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... desire to be with God and the heavenly company ; through Jesus Christ , our only Mediator , Advocate , righteousness , life , sanctification , and hope . Amen , amen . Pray , pray . 666 " ROWLAND TAYLOR . " Departing hence in sure hope ...
... desire to be with God and the heavenly company ; through Jesus Christ , our only Mediator , Advocate , righteousness , life , sanctification , and hope . Amen , amen . Pray , pray . 666 " ROWLAND TAYLOR . " Departing hence in sure hope ...
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... forget thy kindred all , Thy father's house most dear ; Then shall the King desire Thy beauty more and more ; He is the Lord thy God whom thou Must worship and adore . HOPKINS . 131 The daughters then of Tyre , With 130 SACRED POETS .
... forget thy kindred all , Thy father's house most dear ; Then shall the King desire Thy beauty more and more ; He is the Lord thy God whom thou Must worship and adore . HOPKINS . 131 The daughters then of Tyre , With 130 SACRED POETS .
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Page 38 - Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep ; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord ! be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels...
Page 346 - Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Page 276 - Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Page 204 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say...
Page 29 - Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 38 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 62 - For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
Page 25 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 33 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 142 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The...