The Meditations of St. Augustine, His Treatise of the Love of God, Soliloquies, and Manual: With Select Contemplations from St. Anselm and St. Bernard |
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... pains : it was I deserved the death that thou enduredst ; and my offences gave those scourges , those nails , that spear , the power of slaying and wounding , and killing thee . O won- derful process ! mystery of justice ! that the ...
... pains : it was I deserved the death that thou enduredst ; and my offences gave those scourges , those nails , that spear , the power of slaying and wounding , and killing thee . O won- derful process ! mystery of justice ! that the ...
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... pains : I wallow in pleasures , and thou art torn with nails : the honey in my mouth is turned to gall in thy stomach : the tempting Eve rejoices with me , the sorrowful Mary suffers and laments with thee . Thus is my wickedness and ...
... pains : I wallow in pleasures , and thou art torn with nails : the honey in my mouth is turned to gall in thy stomach : the tempting Eve rejoices with me , the sorrowful Mary suffers and laments with thee . Thus is my wickedness and ...
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... pains : and when it was faint and just expiring , sustained and carried it , tied it fast to himself by the strait- est bands of love , lifted it out of the pit of error and confusion , and with many a kind and tender embrace rejoiced ...
... pains : and when it was faint and just expiring , sustained and carried it , tied it fast to himself by the strait- est bands of love , lifted it out of the pit of error and confusion , and with many a kind and tender embrace rejoiced ...
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... pains and sufferings of thy dear Son : let his piety atone for my want of it , his ready obedi- ence for my perverseness , his meekness for my untractable temper : set his humility against my pride , his patience against my discontent ...
... pains and sufferings of thy dear Son : let his piety atone for my want of it , his ready obedi- ence for my perverseness , his meekness for my untractable temper : set his humility against my pride , his patience against my discontent ...
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... exposed . And can we in any propriety of speech call this living ? Does that empty thing deserve the name of life , which is blotted with tumours , ma- cerated with pains , burnt up with fevers , blasted ST . AUGUSTINE . 53.
... exposed . And can we in any propriety of speech call this living ? Does that empty thing deserve the name of life , which is blotted with tumours , ma- cerated with pains , burnt up with fevers , blasted ST . AUGUSTINE . 53.
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Page 60 - O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the stairs, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, And thy countenance is comely.
Page 107 - I love God," and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
Page 321 - And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Page 40 - BUT chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious Resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ our "Lord : for he is the very Paschal Lamb, which was offered for us, and hath taken away the sin of the world ; who by his death hath destroyed death, and by his rising to life again hath restored to us everlasting life.
Page 190 - Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 64 - Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense; and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.
Page 42 - Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name : that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth ; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father'
Page 42 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Page 61 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 320 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head.