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... speak to Him so that we may prevail . -DUBOSC . Affection . - The Blessedness of There is , in life , no blessing like affection : It soothes , it hallows , elevates , subdues , And bringeth down to earth its native heaven . -LANDON ...
... speak to Him so that we may prevail . -DUBOSC . Affection . - The Blessedness of There is , in life , no blessing like affection : It soothes , it hallows , elevates , subdues , And bringeth down to earth its native heaven . -LANDON ...
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... speak or sing , after you have ceased you hear the echo coming from the height of one hundred and fifty feet . It is not like other echoes . The sound is drawn out in sweet prolongation , as though the angels of God were chanting on the ...
... speak or sing , after you have ceased you hear the echo coming from the height of one hundred and fifty feet . It is not like other echoes . The sound is drawn out in sweet prolongation , as though the angels of God were chanting on the ...
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... speak a word , he cannot feel an emotion in religion without it . It tempers all his hopes , his fears , his faith . governs his humility , his peace , his love . guides his gentleness , his goodness . It opens the fountains of his ...
... speak a word , he cannot feel an emotion in religion without it . It tempers all his hopes , his fears , his faith . governs his humility , his peace , his love . guides his gentleness , his goodness . It opens the fountains of his ...
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... speak as he did , and hath no power ; but wondereth , like Zedekiah , how the Spirit is gone from him . Now , when the good Spirit is gone , then cometh the spirit of blindness , and the spirit of terror , and the spirit of fear , and ...
... speak as he did , and hath no power ; but wondereth , like Zedekiah , how the Spirit is gone from him . Now , when the good Spirit is gone , then cometh the spirit of blindness , and the spirit of terror , and the spirit of fear , and ...
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... speak welfare to you and your children . I came to rule , and my throne to set up in the heart of men . Mine ancient residence was the bosom of God ; no resi . dence will I have but the soul of an immortal ; and if you had entertained ...
... speak welfare to you and your children . I came to rule , and my throne to set up in the heart of men . Mine ancient residence was the bosom of God ; no resi . dence will I have but the soul of an immortal ; and if you had entertained ...
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Page 111 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice.
Page 246 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Page 462 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 524 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Page 80 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — " My Father made them all 1
Page 128 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Page 454 - All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Page 454 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 320 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 77 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.