Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses, on the Series of Scriptural Passages, which Form the Subject of the Celebrated Oratorio of Handel, Volume 1author and sold, 1786 - Messiah |
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... mind ; there are truths which can fcarcely be inculcated too often , at least , until the defign , for which they were mentioned once , be effectually answered . Thus , when the ftrokes of a hammer are often repeated , not one of them ...
... mind ; there are truths which can fcarcely be inculcated too often , at least , until the defign , for which they were mentioned once , be effectually answered . Thus , when the ftrokes of a hammer are often repeated , not one of them ...
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... mind by continu- ance or repetition ; the fenfe of them is always new , the recollection of them is always plea- fant . Nor do they only fatisfy , but fanctify the foul . They ftrengthen faith , animate hope , 8 hope , add fervency to ...
... mind by continu- ance or repetition ; the fenfe of them is always new , the recollection of them is always plea- fant . Nor do they only fatisfy , but fanctify the foul . They ftrengthen faith , animate hope , 8 hope , add fervency to ...
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... mind feems to be chiefly fixed upon one august Personage , who was approaching to enlighten and blefs a miferable world ; and before he defcribes the circumstances of his appearance , appearance , he is directed to comfort the mourners ...
... mind feems to be chiefly fixed upon one august Personage , who was approaching to enlighten and blefs a miferable world ; and before he defcribes the circumstances of his appearance , appearance , he is directed to comfort the mourners ...
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... as the body and the mind have a strong and reci- procal influence upon each other , it is pro- bable the difference obfervable in such cases may may in part depend upon constitutional causes . However the THE II CONSOLATION .
... as the body and the mind have a strong and reci- procal influence upon each other , it is pro- bable the difference obfervable in such cases may may in part depend upon constitutional causes . However the THE II CONSOLATION .
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... minds , that they are capable of being satisfied with fuch trifles . Thus if a lunatic conceives his cell to be a palace , that his chains are ornaments of gold , if he calls a wreath of his straw a crown , puts it on his head , head ...
... minds , that they are capable of being satisfied with fuch trifles . Thus if a lunatic conceives his cell to be a palace , that his chains are ornaments of gold , if he calls a wreath of his straw a crown , puts it on his head , head ...
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Page 322 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Page 438 - To me belongs all actual and all possible good, all created and uncreated beauty, all that eye hath seen or imagination conceived ; and more than that, for eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive what God hath prepared for them that love Him.
Page 108 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 361 - He who was in the form of God, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God...
Page 411 - He was taken from prison, and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation ? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Page 175 - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
Page 5 - Reproach hath broken my heart ; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none ; And for comforters, but I found none.
Page 351 - But he was wounded for our transgressions ; he was bruised for our iniquities ; the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
Page 367 - All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, "He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Page 64 - The facts, however, are so plain, and the evidence against them so strong and pointed, that there is not the least doubt of their guilt being fully proved, and that nothing but a pardon can preserve them from punishment. In this situation, it should seem their wisdom to avail themselves of every expedient in their power for obtaining mercy. But they are entirely regardless of...