Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines, Volume 3James Nisbet and Company, 1858 - Christian literature, English |
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... direct my prayer unto Thee , " 255 How to begin the Day , 259 How to close the Day , 268 The Pleasant Journey , Eagles ' Wings , Israel , · ISAAC WATTS , Hymns , . • 277 287 288 289 315 PAGE God's Presence is Light in Darkness , 316 God's.
... direct my prayer unto Thee , " 255 How to begin the Day , 259 How to close the Day , 268 The Pleasant Journey , Eagles ' Wings , Israel , · ISAAC WATTS , Hymns , . • 277 287 288 289 315 PAGE God's Presence is Light in Darkness , 316 God's.
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... direct , and natural ; and it would not be easy to find harangues where the speaker and his audience are in closer contact than the sermons of Latimer and the solitary surviving specimen of Bernard Gilpin - a style which survived as ...
... direct , and natural ; and it would not be easy to find harangues where the speaker and his audience are in closer contact than the sermons of Latimer and the solitary surviving specimen of Bernard Gilpin - a style which survived as ...
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... direct us to these general parts for our division . The first is the quid , the matter to provide for ourselves by making us friends . The second , the cujus , the manner to use the best means to get them , ' The unrighteous mammon ...
... direct us to these general parts for our division . The first is the quid , the matter to provide for ourselves by making us friends . The second , the cujus , the manner to use the best means to get them , ' The unrighteous mammon ...
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... direct and earnest minds , no preamble is so natural as that straightforward entrance which , like the opening words of Gibbon or Macaulay's history , brings the reader or the hearer at once into the heart of the subject . Of this kind ...
... direct and earnest minds , no preamble is so natural as that straightforward entrance which , like the opening words of Gibbon or Macaulay's history , brings the reader or the hearer at once into the heart of the subject . Of this kind ...
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... direct fer- vours of devotion to God , and in collateral emissions of charity to its neighbour . It was not then only another and more cleanly name for lust . It had none of those impure heats , that both represent and deserve hell . It ...
... direct fer- vours of devotion to God , and in collateral emissions of charity to its neighbour . It was not then only another and more cleanly name for lust . It had none of those impure heats , that both represent and deserve hell . It ...
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Page 296 - What I've committed to His hands, Till the decisive hour. 4 Then will He own my worthless name Before His Father's face, And in the New Jerusalem Appoint my soul a place.
Page 310 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 ' ' Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!
Page 318 - JOY to the world ; -the Lord is come : Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth; the Saviour reigns: Let men their songs employ ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy.
Page 81 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 312 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand And there confess my sin.
Page 290 - Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. 3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all : 4 There shall I bathe my weary soul, In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast.
Page 404 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 273 - Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 7 - Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Page 319 - UNVEIL thy bosom, faithful tomb ; Take this new treasure to thy trust, And give these sacred relics room To slumber in the silent dust. 2 Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear Invade thy bounds ; no mortal woes Can reach the peaceful sleeper here. While angels watch the soft repose. 3 So Jesus slept ; God's dying Son...