...to the heart, then, I say, even as thou sawest the damsel lay the dust by sprinkling the floor with A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture...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...

...language plain, 400 And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious...flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, 405 And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture!...

...more especially in the pulpit. ' Simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine incorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural...to guilty men. Behold the picture !— Is it like ? ' * We may leave all who ever heard Mr. Hall, to supply the answer to the. Poet's question. In these...

...approbation of the truth himself, and an affectionate concern for the souls of his hearers. He must really be -much impressed Himself as conscious of his awful...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." In view of the magnitude and importance of the ministerial office, and of those varied and laborious...

...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." This bright example of a Gospel minister, the Apostle held forth to us in his own experience, spirit,...

...himself, and an affectionate concern for the souls of his hearers. He must really be -much imprebsed Himself as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." In view of the magnitude and importance of the ministerial office, and of those varied and laborious...

...his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural...anxious, mainly, that the flock he feeds May feel it to. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men....

...impress'd 55 Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly, that the flock he feed?, May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender...as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. 60 Behold the picture! Is it like ? — Like whom '•: The things, that mount the rostrum with a skip....

...death. CHAPTER IV. HIS SUNDAY. Simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt, in language plain ; And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste. And...address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty man : Behold the picture ! COWPER'S Task. His thoughts are full of making the best of the day, and...

...gospel, as drawn by Cowper: - ' Simple, grave, sincere ; ' In doctrine uucurrupt ; in language plain, ' And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste ' And...in look, ' And tender in address, as well becomes 1 A messenger of grace to guilty men.' " In a letter to Mr. H., written about a month after he began...