Gospel Sonnets: Or, Spiritual Songs, in Six Parts ... Concerning Creation and Redemption, Law and Gospel, Justification and Sanctification, Faith and Sense, Heaven and EarthJ. and A. Duncan, booksellers, Glasgow, 1793 - 371 pages |
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Page 28
... bride . But , ere the marriage can be folemniz'd , All lets must be remov'd , all parties pleas'd . Law - righteoufnefs requir'd , muft be procur'd ,. Law - vengeance threaten'd , must be full en- dur'd , Stern justice must have credit ...
... bride . But , ere the marriage can be folemniz'd , All lets must be remov'd , all parties pleas'd . Law - righteoufnefs requir'd , muft be procur'd ,. Law - vengeance threaten'd , must be full en- dur'd , Stern justice must have credit ...
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... bride . The meritorious labours of his life , And glorious conquefts of his dying strife ; Her debt of doing , fuff ... bride's ftrong interceffor fits , And thence the bleffings of his blood tranfmits ,, Sprinkling all o'er the flaming ...
... bride . The meritorious labours of his life , And glorious conquefts of his dying strife ; Her debt of doing , fuff ... bride's ftrong interceffor fits , And thence the bleffings of his blood tranfmits ,, Sprinkling all o'er the flaming ...
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... bride's fo malecontent , No argument , fave power , is prevalent To bow her will , and gain her heart's confent . The glorious Prince's fuit fhe difapproves , The law , her old primordial husband , loves ; Hopeful in its embraces life ...
... bride's fo malecontent , No argument , fave power , is prevalent To bow her will , and gain her heart's confent . The glorious Prince's fuit fhe difapproves , The law , her old primordial husband , loves ; Hopeful in its embraces life ...
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... bride reluctant difallows The junior fuit , and hugs the fenior spouse . Such the old felfish folly of her mind , So bent to lick the duft , and grafp the wind , Alledging works and duties of her own May for her criminal offence atone ...
... bride reluctant difallows The junior fuit , and hugs the fenior spouse . Such the old felfish folly of her mind , So bent to lick the duft , and grafp the wind , Alledging works and duties of her own May for her criminal offence atone ...
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... bride , fo backwardly difpos'd ; How then fhall e'er the happy match be clos'd ? Kind grace the tumults of her heart muft quell , And.draw her heav'nward by the gates of hell . The Bridegroom's Father makes , by's holy Spirit , His ...
... bride , fo backwardly difpos'd ; How then fhall e'er the happy match be clos'd ? Kind grace the tumults of her heart muft quell , And.draw her heav'nward by the gates of hell . The Bridegroom's Father makes , by's holy Spirit , His ...
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Page 225 - Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old ? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born ? Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 323 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Page 259 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 193 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 235 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand ; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Page 211 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 166 - God; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 312 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people...
Page 212 - But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Page 229 - As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father ; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven : not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead : he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.