The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs ...: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life. ...J. Chalmers & Company, 1809 |
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... because all her love is , or should be , imparted and spent on Chrift , who gave himself to a curfed death for her . Our love fhould run in ftrength no other way , therefore the Church calls Chrift her beloved . Chrift was there before ...
... because all her love is , or should be , imparted and spent on Chrift , who gave himself to a curfed death for her . Our love fhould run in ftrength no other way , therefore the Church calls Chrift her beloved . Chrift was there before ...
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... because grace helps us to fee our need of Christ , and so helps us to prize him the more ; which high efteem breeds an hungering earneft defire after him , and a defire of further likeness and fuitableness to him .. Secondly , because ...
... because grace helps us to fee our need of Christ , and so helps us to prize him the more ; which high efteem breeds an hungering earneft defire after him , and a defire of further likeness and fuitableness to him .. Secondly , because ...
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... because the judgement and refolution of will , whereby we do them , is ours . This he doth to encourage us ; but because the grace whereby we judge and will aright , comes from God , it is our duty to a- feribe whatsoever is good in us ...
... because the judgement and refolution of will , whereby we do them , is ours . This he doth to encourage us ; but because the grace whereby we judge and will aright , comes from God , it is our duty to a- feribe whatsoever is good in us ...
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... because the materials of these holy defires are good in themselves , and from the perfon from whence they come , his beloved spouse , as it is Cant . ii . 14. where Chrift defiring to hear the voice of his church , faith , " Let me fee ...
... because the materials of these holy defires are good in themselves , and from the perfon from whence they come , his beloved spouse , as it is Cant . ii . 14. where Chrift defiring to hear the voice of his church , faith , " Let me fee ...
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... because fo long as we live in any known fin unre- pented of , God neither regards us nor our prayers . What a fearful eftate is this , that when we have fuch need of God's fa- vour in all eftates ; in fickness , the hour of death , and ...
... because fo long as we live in any known fin unre- pented of , God neither regards us nor our prayers . What a fearful eftate is this , that when we have fuch need of God's fa- vour in all eftates ; in fickness , the hour of death , and ...
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Page 79 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 172 - The watchmen that went about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
Page 342 - But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Page 38 - I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Page 191 - What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
Page 342 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Page 156 - I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him ; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Page 210 - My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
Page 2 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
Page 149 - My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.