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All eyes are fixed on Jesus ; every look is love ; gratitude glows in every bosom ,
and swells in every song ; now with golden harps they sound the Saviour's praise
; and now , descending from their thrones to do him homage THE ...
All eyes are fixed on Jesus ; every look is love ; gratitude glows in every bosom ,
and swells in every song ; now with golden harps they sound the Saviour's praise
; and now , descending from their thrones to do him homage THE ...
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now , descending from their thrones to do him homage , they cast their crowns in
one glittering heap at the feet which were nailed on Calvary . Look there , and
learn in whose name to seek salvation , and through whose merits to hope for it .
now , descending from their thrones to do him homage , they cast their crowns in
one glittering heap at the feet which were nailed on Calvary . Look there , and
learn in whose name to seek salvation , and through whose merits to hope for it .
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So , when the soul , filled with longings to be gone , is often darting away to glory
, and , soaring upward , rises on the wings of faith , till this great world , from her
sublime elevation , looks a little thing , God's people know that they have the ...
So , when the soul , filled with longings to be gone , is often darting away to glory
, and , soaring upward , rises on the wings of faith , till this great world , from her
sublime elevation , looks a little thing , God's people know that they have the ...
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I. Look at our state of nature and sin as one of darkness . In its essential nature ,
sin is as opposed to holiness as darkness is to light ; and as different , therefore ,
from holiness , as a starless midnight from the blaze of noonday . Our natural ...
I. Look at our state of nature and sin as one of darkness . In its essential nature ,
sin is as opposed to holiness as darkness is to light ; and as different , therefore ,
from holiness , as a starless midnight from the blaze of noonday . Our natural ...
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That we may have a deep , and by God's blessing a saving , impression of our
need of salvation , let us look at some aspects of our state by nature in the light , if
I may say so , of its darkness . 1. Darkness is a state of indolence . Night is the ...
That we may have a deep , and by God's blessing a saving , impression of our
need of salvation , let us look at some aspects of our state by nature in the light , if
I may say so , of its darkness . 1. Darkness is a state of indolence . Night is the ...
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| Title | Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints: Illustrated in a Series of Discourses from the Colossians |
| Author | Thomas Guthrie |
| Publisher | Adam and Charles Black, 1858 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2016 |
| Length | 385 pages |
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