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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... constant prayers of , May it please your Royal Highness , Your Royal Highness's Most obedient , and Most devoted Servant , GEO . STANHOPE . April 12 , 1701 . TABLE OF CHAPTERS . St. Augustine's Meditations . Book I. iv DEDICATION .
... constant prayers of , May it please your Royal Highness , Your Royal Highness's Most obedient , and Most devoted Servant , GEO . STANHOPE . April 12 , 1701 . TABLE OF CHAPTERS . St. Augustine's Meditations . Book I. iv DEDICATION .
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... servants with severity and scorn , to fail in due affection towards my friends and re- lations , or in kindness and compassion towards my neighbours and acquaintance . O my God , thou fountain of mercy , I beg thee , for the sake of the ...
... servants with severity and scorn , to fail in due affection towards my friends and re- lations , or in kindness and compassion towards my neighbours and acquaintance . O my God , thou fountain of mercy , I beg thee , for the sake of the ...
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... servants . The Lord is good to all , and his tender mercies are over all his works . ( Ps . cxlv . 9. ) And what was said of one particular person , we may most truly apply to thy people in general , my mercy will I not take from him ...
... servants . The Lord is good to all , and his tender mercies are over all his works . ( Ps . cxlv . 9. ) And what was said of one particular person , we may most truly apply to thy people in general , my mercy will I not take from him ...
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... servant ; possess me thoroughly with thy fear , that I may not dare to incur thy threatenings ; and support me with the joy of thy salvation , that I may be filled with thy love , and cheerfully run the race that leadeth to thy gracious ...
... servant ; possess me thoroughly with thy fear , that I may not dare to incur thy threatenings ; and support me with the joy of thy salvation , that I may be filled with thy love , and cheerfully run the race that leadeth to thy gracious ...
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... servants find it no hard matter to come off without blows , if the children employ their pretty endearments in their behalf . Since then these methods are so successful below , why should they not have the same good effect above ? I ...
... servants find it no hard matter to come off without blows , if the children employ their pretty endearments in their behalf . Since then these methods are so successful below , why should they not have the same good effect above ? I ...
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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.