 | Azubah Clark - 1830 - 244 pages
...proofs exist, that in the retirement of the closet her thoughts were fixed with intensity upon them. " The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee. S " There, if Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode ; Oh ! with what peace, and joy,... | |
 | Bible - 1830 - 458 pages
...flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes, where sin is waging still Its most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee. 3 There, if thy spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode ; O with what peace, and joy, and love,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1830 - 508 pages
...greater than them all together, — Cowper. Here is a lyric of his, — three stanzas of a hymn : — " The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those' that follow Thee. " There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace,... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Conduct of life - 1831 - 304 pages
...repeating with particular warmth and feeling the following stanzas of that beautiful hymn of Cowper :— "Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and...thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! "There, like the nightingale, she... | |
 | Lowell Mason - Bible - 1831 - 594 pages
...weakness and sin, And thine be the glory Forever — Amen. CM Lkchfield. 554 Retiremeut ami Meditation. 1 FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and...scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. p 2 The calm retreat— the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; — And seem, by thy sweet... | |
 | James Montgomery - Hymns, English - 1832 - 484 pages
...me not ; And he is safe, and must succeed, For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead. 212. Retirement* 1 FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and...scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made... | |
 | Vyell Francis Vyvyan - 1832 - 142 pages
...Then point to realms of cloudless day, And wipe the latest tear away. HYMN XXXIV. C. M Retirement, from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult...scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With pray'r and praise agree ; And seem, by thy rich bounty,... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1833 - 300 pages
...that ' it would suit the muse of Cowper, and prompt one who Mt with him to say with holy rapture, ' The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee.' Oh 1 would that I had realized this use of that lovely »pot— that prayer and praise had always occupied... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...the language of the Christian's first love, that they cannot fail to be read with deep interest. " The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who forlow thee. There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1834 - 466 pages
...Father and the Holy Ghost, be all glory and honour for ever and ever. Amen. " Our Father," &c. HYMN X. Far from the world, O Lord, I flee ; From strife and...agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those that follow thee. There, if the Spirit touch the soul And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace,... | |
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FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee. 
