The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D.

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Edward Baines, 1800

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Page 53 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 547 - My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Page 79 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not...
Page 626 - Choose us out men, and go ' out, fight with Amalek : to-morrow I will stand on the ' top of the hill with the rod of GOD in mine hand.
Page 547 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 17 - Angels, it shows us, that we are to imitate it as far as our Nature will allow, and to stop at no Degrees short of it, but such as we cannot possibly reach.
Page 76 - I'd plead for his own mercy's sake, And for my Saviour's blood. 4 My God will pity my complaints, And heal my broken bones: He takes the meaning of his saints, The language of their groans. 5 Arise, my soul, from deep distress, And banish every fear ; He calls thee to his throne of grace, To spread thy sorrows there.
Page 8 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 385 - Thus the will of God would be done on earth as it is in heaven, and the kingdom of our Redeemer come in its expected glory.
Page 79 - If thou hadst known even thou, at least in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

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