Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D.R. L. Bryan Company, 1910 - Presbyterian Church |
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... hope for from him , for the increase of our faith and the consummation of our joys . The whole theory , power , and prosecution of Missions , Home and Foreign , therefore , rest upon the great fundamental truth of the supreme Divinity ...
... hope for from him , for the increase of our faith and the consummation of our joys . The whole theory , power , and prosecution of Missions , Home and Foreign , therefore , rest upon the great fundamental truth of the supreme Divinity ...
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... hope of the glory to come . Its glimmer- ing light penetrated the gloom of centuries , and seeing Christ's day afar off , it was glad . It laughed at impossibilities , and boldly said to every intervening mountain , " Be thou removed ...
... hope of the glory to come . Its glimmer- ing light penetrated the gloom of centuries , and seeing Christ's day afar off , it was glad . It laughed at impossibilities , and boldly said to every intervening mountain , " Be thou removed ...
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... hope , in all time of their darkness and despondency , until the day - star should arise , the promised morn appear , and the glorious day of the world's redemption shine forth in its meridian splendor . Let the storms ply their deep ...
... hope , in all time of their darkness and despondency , until the day - star should arise , the promised morn appear , and the glorious day of the world's redemption shine forth in its meridian splendor . Let the storms ply their deep ...
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... hope , clung to the promise and prophecy , and held fast to God , to duty , and to a joyful expectation ! Oh ! how long was that vista through which the eye of their faith had to pierce ! How dark the vaulted labyrinth of ages and ...
... hope , clung to the promise and prophecy , and held fast to God , to duty , and to a joyful expectation ! Oh ! how long was that vista through which the eye of their faith had to pierce ! How dark the vaulted labyrinth of ages and ...
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... hope , and dying peacefully under the light of its promised salvation ; when we contemplate Moses preferring self - denial , and sacrifice , and death itself in the cause of Christ , to the pleasures of sin , and the splendor of a ...
... hope , and dying peacefully under the light of its promised salvation ; when we contemplate Moses preferring self - denial , and sacrifice , and death itself in the cause of Christ , to the pleasures of sin , and the splendor of a ...
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Page 539 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Page 745 - ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee ; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests ; Fulfil now, 0 Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them ; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Page 699 - Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities : for we know not what we should pray for as we ought : but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Page 346 - And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Page 532 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. What then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : what can it not ? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent ? O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death ! O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engaged ! Help, angels, make assay ! Bow, stubborn knees ! and, heart, with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe : All may be well ! [retires and kneels.
Page 169 - And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you ; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
Page 149 - 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; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Page 130 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Page 303 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all ; and in thine hand is power and might ; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
Page 491 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.