Sermons and Other Selections from the Writing of William C. Hanscom: With a Memoir by J. G. Adams |
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This world is all a fleeting show , For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy , the
tears of woe , Deceitful shine , deceitful flow : There's nothing true but heaven ! " $
Who does not love , at such a season as this , to look back and reflect upon the ...
This world is all a fleeting show , For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy , the
tears of woe , Deceitful shine , deceitful flow : There's nothing true but heaven ! " $
Who does not love , at such a season as this , to look back and reflect upon the ...
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Page 135 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuons eye, 'And smiling say —
Page 24 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 67 - But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Page 50 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 100 - Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law ; ye are fallen from grace.
Page 113 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 52 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 84 - Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb ; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.
Page 118 - What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord : I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
Page 178 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Bibliographic information
| Title | Sermons and Other Selections from the Writing of William C. Hanscom: With a Memoir by J. G. Adams |
| Author | William Cutter Hanscom |
| Publisher | A. Tompkins, 1838 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 203 pages |
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