 | Herbert Mends - 1801 - 432 pages
...the word, JL And brings the truth to sight ; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. \ If. A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun ; It gives a light to ev'ry age, It gives, but borrows none. ill. The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...upon the word, And brings the truth to sight ; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. 2 A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun...a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none, Exod. ivif. xi. 3 The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and heat ; His truths upon... | |
 | Church of England - 1802 - 604 pages
...It gives a light to ev'ry age, It gives, but borrows none. The hand that gave it, still supplies His gracious light and heat ; His truths upon the nations rise, They rise, but never set. 1II Let everlasting thanks be thine, For such a bright display, As makes a world of darkness shine... | |
 | John Disney - 1802 - 342 pages
...all the nations blest That see the light, or feel the sun. THB LIGHT AND GLORV OF THE GOSPEL. I WHAT glory gilds the sacred page! Majestic, like the sun, It gives a light to ev'ry age, It gives, but borrows none. ii The hand that gave it, still supplies His gracious light... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...throne In joys to mortal thought unknown. 435\ CM COWPER. The light and glory of tht tixrJ. 1 "V\7"HAT glory gilds the sacred page '"* Majestic like the sun \ It gives a light to ev'ry age, It gives, but borrows none. 2 The hand that gave it, still supplies His gracious light and... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 712 pages
...upon the word, And brings the truth to sight ; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. 2' A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun; It gives a light to ev'ry age, • It gives, but borrows none. 3 The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1810 - 726 pages
...upon the word, And brings the truth to sight ; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. 2 A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun ; It gives a light to ev'ry age, It gives, but borrows none. 3 The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and... | |
 | Collection - 1812 - 314 pages
...it not in vain. 88. CM Praise for divine Revelation. 1. A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic as the sun; It gives a light to every age ; It gives, but borrows none. 2. The hand which gave it, still supplies The gracious light and heat; Its truths upon the nations... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1812 - 312 pages
...not in vain. . 88. c. M. Praise for divine Revelation. 1. A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic as the sun ; It gives a light to every age ; It gives, but borrows none. 2. The hand which gave it, still supplies The gracious light and heat; Its truths upon the nations... | |
 | Missions - 1839 - 702 pages
...most of them. The glory of the Divine word is admirably glanced at by our inimitable Cowper : — " A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic, like the sun; It gives a light to every age; It givei, but borrowi none." Bishop Taylor says, "Let us go to God for truth ; for truth conies from God... | |
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The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and heat : His truths upon the nations rise ; They rise, but never set. 1 Exodus xvii. 11. 4 Let everlasting thanks be thine, For such a bright display, As makes a world of darkness shine With beams... 
