 | John Newton - Hymns, English - 1843 - 402 pages
...would not hear, Suddenly deliverance came. 61. ON THE SCRIPTURE., The Light and Glory of the Word. C. 1 THE Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings the...Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. 2 A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic, like the sun ; It gives a light to every age, It gives,... | |
 | M. Sharwood - 1843 - 118 pages
...who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts," &c. — 2 Cor. iv. 6. 1 THE Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings the...Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. 2 A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic, like the sun ; It gives a light to every age — It gives,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Isaac Watts - Bible - 1844 - 754 pages
...precepts live. Beddome. 51 The Glory of the World. CM Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. 2 A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun...light to every age, It gives — but borrows none. 3 The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and heat ; His truths upon the nations rise,... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 882 pages
...writings lose their splendor, as the glowworm pales "his uneffectual fire" when the matin approaches. " A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic, like the...light to every age ; It gives, but borrows none." "We do not propose to eulogize these books, for the same reason that we would not eulogize the sun... | |
 | Lowell Mason, David Greene - Hymns, English - 1844 - 588 pages
...thy word — and must endure. 8C. M. Christmas. Tvllond The Bible the Light of tile World. 1 1 1 WHAT glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic, like the sun:...light to every age ; It gives- -but borrows none. aa •'4 The power that gave it still supplies i The gracious light and heat : Its truths upon the... | |
 | Theology - 1855 - 630 pages
...Scott. We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. — Sir Isaac Newton. What he satisfaction of judging for yourselves how far...alleged makes for the argument which it is brought to Cowper. The Scriptures contain, independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite... | |
 | 1844 - 558 pages
...Sunday : it would tell the secrets of the heart itself. THE BIBLE THE STANDARD OF FAITH AND PRACTICE. ' The Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings the...Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light/ WHEN we speak of " walking after the Spirit " we mean, that we should hear him speaking to us in the... | |
 | Bristol Sunday-school union - 1844 - 236 pages
...every page ! That holy book shall guide our youth, And well support our age. 106 plory of the Word. 1 "•THE Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings...Precepts and Promises afford A sanctifying light. 2 A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun ; It gives a light to every age — It gives... | |
 | William Greenleaf Eliot - Hymns, English - 1845 - 406 pages
...the stream, to rise above ! 13 * 149 THE SCRIPTURES. t 45. CM COWPEB. Light and Glory of the Word. 1 A GLORY gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun...a light to every age ; It gives, but borrows none. 2 The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and heat : His truths upon the nations rise... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...denote an intimate acquaintance with the management of style." Some author has beautifully written : " A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun...a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none." Religion was the great subject of discussion from the reformation down to the revolution, and through... | |
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The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and heat : His truths upon the nations rise, They rise, but never set. 
