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... Spirit , 171 Sir Thomas Browne , 176 Immortality , 177 • A Letter to a Friend on the Death of his Intimate Acquaintance , 180 Sir Matthew Hale , 186 Directions for Keeping the Lord's - day , 186 The Hon . Robert Boyle , 195 The ...
... Spirit , 171 Sir Thomas Browne , 176 Immortality , 177 • A Letter to a Friend on the Death of his Intimate Acquaintance , 180 Sir Matthew Hale , 186 Directions for Keeping the Lord's - day , 186 The Hon . Robert Boyle , 195 The ...
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... the regenerating Spirit as His work to produce , not a perfect manhood , but a sort of imperfect angelhood . And in our own day it may be THE NEW THEOLOGY . 19 feared that a meagre and 18 SOUTH , TILLOTSON , AND MODERN SERMONISERS .
... the regenerating Spirit as His work to produce , not a perfect manhood , but a sort of imperfect angelhood . And in our own day it may be THE NEW THEOLOGY . 19 feared that a meagre and 18 SOUTH , TILLOTSON , AND MODERN SERMONISERS .
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... spirit of Tillotson , pervaded the massive theology of the Commonwealth , it is likely that the results would have been greater , and more enduring ; as it is also to be lamented , that from the absence of evangelical motives , the ...
... spirit of Tillotson , pervaded the massive theology of the Commonwealth , it is likely that the results would have been greater , and more enduring ; as it is also to be lamented , that from the absence of evangelical motives , the ...
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... spirit of the universe . Love is such an affection , as cannot so properly be said to be in the soul , as the soul ... spirits , the exultation of a tickled fancy , or a pleased appetite . Joy was then a masculine and a severe thing ...
... spirit of the universe . Love is such an affection , as cannot so properly be said to be in the soul , as the soul ... spirits , the exultation of a tickled fancy , or a pleased appetite . Joy was then a masculine and a severe thing ...
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... spirit , which must make others to serve the Church in the hard and controversial parts of religion . Which sort of men ( though they should never rub men's itching ears from the pulpit ) the Church can no more be without , than a ...
... spirit , which must make others to serve the Church in the hard and controversial parts of religion . Which sort of men ( though they should never rub men's itching ears from the pulpit ) the Church can no more be without , than a ...
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Page 296 - Should earth against my soul engage, And hellish darts be hurled, Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. 3. ' Let cares, like a wild deluge, come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all ; — 4. ' There shall I bathe my weary soul In seas of heavenly rest ; And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast.
Page 302 - What I've committed to His hands, Till the decisive hour. 4 Then will He own my worthless name Before His Father's face, And in the New Jerusalem Appoint my soul a place.
Page 326 - JOY to the world ; -the Lord is come : Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth; the Saviour reigns: Let men their songs employ ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy.
Page 385 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 402 - Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to thy cross I cling ; Naked, come to thee for dress ; Helpless, look to thee for grace ; Foul, I to the fountain fly ; Wash me, Saviour, or I die.
Page 325 - A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun.
Page 327 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Page 319 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on th' accursed tree ; And hopes her guilt was there.
Page 420 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 408 - Come, O thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see ; My company before is gone, And I am left alone with Thee ; With Thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day.