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" Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ;... "
The Poems of William Cowper - Page 271
by William Cowper - 1905 - 741 pages
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Memoir of James Brainerd Taylor, Volume 15

John Holt Rice, Benjamin Holt Rice - Christian biography - 1833 - 460 pages
...gospel, as drawn by Cowper : - ' Simple, grave, sincere ; ' Fn doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, ' And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste ' And...affectionate in look, 'And tender in address, as well hecomes ' A messenger of grace to guilty men.' " In a letter to Mr. H., written about a month after...
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Memoir of James Brainerd Taylor, Volume 15

John Holt Rice, Benjamin Holt Rice - Christian biography - 1833 - 466 pages
...And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste ' And natural in gesture ; much impressed ' Himself, us conscious of his awful charge, 'And anxious mainly...well becomes ' A messenger of grace to guilty men.' " In a letter to Mr. H., written about a month after he began his course of study, after expressing...
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Literary recreations; or, Scenes from real life

John Young (M.A.) - 1833 - 328 pages
...residence, was one of those whom the keen, sarcastic pen of Covvper has so inimitably portrayed. — " Behold the picture ! Is it like ? Like whom ? * The...skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry — hem, and reading what they never wrote. Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And, with...
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The Life of William Cowper, Esq: Compiled from His Correspondence and Other ...

Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...gesture ; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, \ml anxious mainly that the nock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look And...address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty man.' In the third book, THE GARDEN, the poet enters upon a widely different subject, expatiating in...
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The Chinese Repository, Volumes 1-5

China - 1833 - 2950 pages
...language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." We have now sketched the plan of a colony, to be composed of fifteen families; three for agricultural,...
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The National Preacher, Volumes 7-8

Religion - 1834 - 400 pages
...language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impress'd As conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." " I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident,...
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The American National Preacher, Volumes 7-8

Religion - 1834 - 496 pages
...language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impress'd As conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." " I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident,...
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The poetical works of William Cowper, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

William Cowper - 1879 - 688 pages
...his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural...skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ; and reading what they never wrote, — Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with...
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Memorials of the Life of John Gregg, D.D.

Robert Samuel Gregg - Bishops - 1879 - 336 pages
...spring from it. To him the lines of Cowper would apply— " In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste ; And...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." There are many still who will remember those Sunday mornings in Trinity Church. The large plain church...
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The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ...

Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...grave, sincere ; In doctrine nncorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chast And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as...messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture 1 Is it like ?— Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again...
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