| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...himself direct me; I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in...as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture !—Is it like ?—Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 242 pages
...design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, 400 And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And...flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, 403 And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture !... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, 400 And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And...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 !... | |
| Thomas Babington - Christian education - 1826 - 294 pages
...by Christian seriousness, attempered by parental love and condescension. He should be Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious...too: affectionate in look, And tender in address. But care must be taken that the conversation or lecture (whichever it may be called) shall not harass... | |
| Baptists - 1826 - 436 pages
...yet there was a serious earnestness in his preaching, which commanded the attention of his hearers. He was, simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt...decent, solemn, chaste. And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, asccnscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he fed Might... | |
| Lutheran Church - 1830 - 398 pages
...himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and druvv from his design. 1 would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine .uncorrupt ;...decent, solemn, chaste. And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock lie feeds May... | |
| Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...himself direct me. I would trace His master strokes, and draw from his design. 1 would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in...as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. * * * » * In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the... | |
| John Richards - 1827 - 466 pages
...dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless rve, according " I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in...decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May... | |
| Erastus Worthington - Dedham (Mass.) - 1827 - 164 pages
...high character, which comes nearly up to Cowper's model of a good preacher, and has expressed him, " simple, grave, sincere, in doctrine uncorrupt, in language plain, and plain in manner." The circumstance that the first five clergymen have been highly praisedv without any notice of any... | |
| Erastus Worthington - Dedham (Mass.) - 1827 - 164 pages
...high character, which comes nearly up to Cowper's model of a good preacher, and has expressed him, " simple, grave, sincere, in doctrine uncorrupt, in language plain, and plain in mariner." The circumstance that the first five clergymen have been highly praised, without any notice... | |
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