Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines, Volume 3James Nisbet and Company, 1858 - Christian literature, English |
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... True , anterior to their time , there were sermons of an excellent " style . " In the ear- nest days of reformation , preachers were free , direct , and natural ; and it would not be easy to find harangues where the speaker and his ...
... True , anterior to their time , there were sermons of an excellent " style . " In the ear- nest days of reformation , preachers were free , direct , and natural ; and it would not be easy to find harangues where the speaker and his ...
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... true dignity , that he could jest at the king's expense , and some of his sayings are not so remarkable for their point as for their free - and - e -easy im- pudence . One day sleep had overtaken part of his audience , including its ...
... true dignity , that he could jest at the king's expense , and some of his sayings are not so remarkable for their point as for their free - and - e -easy im- pudence . One day sleep had overtaken part of his audience , including its ...
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... true ' confidence towards God ' that it cannot so much as give them any true confidence towards a wise and good man ; no , nor yet towards themselves , who are far from being either . " Racy and idiomatic as is our author's English , it ...
... true ' confidence towards God ' that it cannot so much as give them any true confidence towards a wise and good man ; no , nor yet towards themselves , who are far from being either . " Racy and idiomatic as is our author's English , it ...
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... true morality very well ; and therefore there was something in the hearts and consciences of men not debauched , that moved them to give assent and consent to what he spoke , as being agree- able and con - natural , as I may say , to ...
... true morality very well ; and therefore there was something in the hearts and consciences of men not debauched , that moved them to give assent and consent to what he spoke , as being agree- able and con - natural , as I may say , to ...
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... true and good sense , and had got a right notion of style , for he was in France at a time when they were much set on reforming their language . It soon appeared that he had a true taste . So this helped to raise the value of these men ...
... true and good sense , and had got a right notion of style , for he was in France at a time when they were much set on reforming their language . It soon appeared that he had a true taste . So this helped to raise the value of these men ...
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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...