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... honours made the compeer of Milton , whose immortal work the first artists and writers of the age conspire to illustrate and eulogise ; Cowper , almost a hundred years after his death , conceived he durst not name ! Milton himself lost ...
... honours made the compeer of Milton , whose immortal work the first artists and writers of the age conspire to illustrate and eulogise ; Cowper , almost a hundred years after his death , conceived he durst not name ! Milton himself lost ...
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... honours as in speeding the heralds of Divine com- passion ? Let then the possessors of high intel- lectual endowments seriously ponder the claims which Christianity has on them . We are not to suppose that it will be by intel- lectual ...
... honours as in speeding the heralds of Divine com- passion ? Let then the possessors of high intel- lectual endowments seriously ponder the claims which Christianity has on them . We are not to suppose that it will be by intel- lectual ...
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... honour of being in its saving truths intel- ligible to the most uncultivated mind , rises and expands to such a vastness and grandeur as baffle and confound the most exalted intellect . * Note F. II . ON MORAL GREATNESS . 66 ' FATHER ...
... honour of being in its saving truths intel- ligible to the most uncultivated mind , rises and expands to such a vastness and grandeur as baffle and confound the most exalted intellect . * Note F. II . ON MORAL GREATNESS . 66 ' FATHER ...
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... - fold temptations : that the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth , though it be tried with fire , might be found unto praise , and honour , and glory , at the ON MORAL GREATNESS . 31.
... - fold temptations : that the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth , though it be tried with fire , might be found unto praise , and honour , and glory , at the ON MORAL GREATNESS . 31.
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William M'Combie. praise , and honour , and glory , at the appearing of Jesus Christ . " God chasteneth us " for our profit , that we might be partakers of his holiness . " Thus we see powerful reasons why all the people of God are more ...
William M'Combie. praise , and honour , and glory , at the appearing of Jesus Christ . " God chasteneth us " for our profit , that we might be partakers of his holiness . " Thus we see powerful reasons why all the people of God are more ...
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Page 162 - Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: For more are the children of the desolate Than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord. 2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, And let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: Spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes...
Page 164 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 170 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Page 93 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 194 - Resume thy wizard elm ! the fountain lending, And the wild breeze, thy wilder minstrelsy; Thy numbers sweet with nature's vespers blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea, And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet, once again farewell, thou Minstrel Harp ! Yet, once again, forgive my feeble sway, And little reck I of the censure sharp May idly cavil at an idle lay.
Page 111 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Page 25 - And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there : save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Page 94 - And they came, both men and women, as many as were willinghearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered, offered an offering of gold unto the Lord." "And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, brought them.
Page 106 - Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built.
Page 167 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.