Our Christian classics: readings from the best divines, with notices biographical and critical, by J. Hamilton, Volumes 3-4 |
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... Thankful 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 ...
... Thankful 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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... thankful glass , That mends the looker's eyes : this is the well That washes what it shews . Who can endear Thy praise too much ? thou art heaven's lieger here , Working against the states of death and hell . Thou art joy's handsel ...
... thankful glass , That mends the looker's eyes : this is the well That washes what it shews . Who can endear Thy praise too much ? thou art heaven's lieger here , Working against the states of death and hell . Thou art joy's handsel ...
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... thankful plain , Which then our tears in pearled rows Did help to water with their rain ; The thought of Zion bred such woes , That though our harps we did retain , Yet useless , and untouched there On willows only hang'd they were ...
... thankful plain , Which then our tears in pearled rows Did help to water with their rain ; The thought of Zion bred such woes , That though our harps we did retain , Yet useless , and untouched there On willows only hang'd they were ...
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... thankful voice ; Let us sing psalms to Him with grace , And make a joyful noise . For God , a great God , and great King , Above all gods He is . Depths of the earth are in His hand , The strength of hills is His . 135 To Him the ...
... thankful voice ; Let us sing psalms to Him with grace , And make a joyful noise . For God , a great God , and great King , Above all gods He is . Depths of the earth are in His hand , The strength of hills is His . 135 To Him the ...
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... thankful to have for his retreat the simple and unchanging " faithful saying . " It was a boast of Selden , that " laymen have best interpreted the hard places in the Bible , such as Joannes Picus , Scaliger , Grotius , Salmasius ...
... thankful to have for his retreat the simple and unchanging " faithful saying . " It was a boast of Selden , that " laymen have best interpreted the hard places in the Bible , such as Joannes Picus , Scaliger , Grotius , Salmasius ...
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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.