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adversity Beware Bible billows blessed bound calamity calm Captain careless cast Christ Christian voyage cloth boards commands compass and chart conscience counsels of experience danger darkness dash forward dead calm desired haven direction Divine doubt doubtless duty faith Fcap godliness guidance gusts of temptation half-bound heart heavenly shore helm helmsman holy Holy Spirit human II.-There Jesus JOHN ANGELL JAMES JOHN SHEPPARD light LIGHTHOUSES AND BEACONS look Lord mariner morality nature ness overmastering path perhaps peril perplexity pharisaism pilot pirates pleasure port prudence RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY remember reproofs of instruction RICHARD BAXTER safety sailor Scripture scrupulosity seeking selfish set sail ship shipwreck sinful Sirens sometimes soul spirit spiritual progress STAMFORD STREET steer storm sure tempest Thee thing Thou thought tian tion tossed true course unto vessel wait at anchor warning WILLIAM CLOWES wind wise wish worldly young
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Page 101 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice "believe no more" And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd "I have felt.
Page 94 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Page 86 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day. We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 21 - Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Page 111 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Page 58 - ETERNAL Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep ; O hear us when we cry to thee...
Page 90 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 38 - THE rocky ledge runs far into the sea, And on its outer point, some miles away, The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day. Even at this distance I can see the tides, Upheaving, break unheard along its base, A speechless wrath, that rises and subsides In the white lip and tremor of the face. And as the evening darkens, lo ! how bright, Through the deep purple of the twilight air, Beams forth the...
Page 80 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die : Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord 1 or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 51 - My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee ; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee ; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life...