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... hope for health in May , 4. The wearifome weeks of fickness , 239 241 243 244 245 A hymn of praife for recovery , By Mr. WESLEY . On the last judgment , 107 By Sir H. WOTTON . The character of a happy life , 93 By Dr. YOUNG . The laft ...
... hope for health in May , 4. The wearifome weeks of fickness , 239 241 243 244 245 A hymn of praife for recovery , By Mr. WESLEY . On the last judgment , 107 By Sir H. WOTTON . The character of a happy life , 93 By Dr. YOUNG . The laft ...
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... hope , my vaft reward , And all I wou'd poffefs , Still more than these pathetic names And charming words exprefs ! HYMN to the REDEEMER of the World . By Mr. Bow DEN . I. 7HOM fhou'd I praise , O Chrift , but thee ? Whole praises ...
... hope , my vaft reward , And all I wou'd poffefs , Still more than these pathetic names And charming words exprefs ! HYMN to the REDEEMER of the World . By Mr. Bow DEN . I. 7HOM fhou'd I praise , O Chrift , but thee ? Whole praises ...
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... hope and help all aid denies , Lo ! God his vaft compaflion fhews , His dear and only Son bestows Who for our fafety freely dies . II . O height ! O length ! O breadth ! O deep ! What love with thine can measures keep ? Love ! that from ...
... hope and help all aid denies , Lo ! God his vaft compaflion fhews , His dear and only Son bestows Who for our fafety freely dies . II . O height ! O length ! O breadth ! O deep ! What love with thine can measures keep ? Love ! that from ...
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... hope for more . X. My life if thou preferv'ft , my life Thy facrifice fhall be ; And death , if death must be my doom , Shall join my foul to thee . ΤΗ HYM N. Addisson . I. HE fpacious firmament on high , With all the blue ethereal sky ...
... hope for more . X. My life if thou preferv'ft , my life Thy facrifice fhall be ; And death , if death must be my doom , Shall join my foul to thee . ΤΗ HYM N. Addisson . I. HE fpacious firmament on high , With all the blue ethereal sky ...
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... hope and confternation , Now blaze the wond'rous news about The radiant corporation ; Who vainly strive the mystery to scan , And fathom the ftupendous depth of this great love to man . IX . He on the rights of justice stood With their ...
... hope and confternation , Now blaze the wond'rous news about The radiant corporation ; Who vainly strive the mystery to scan , And fathom the ftupendous depth of this great love to man . IX . He on the rights of justice stood With their ...
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Page 212 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 210 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 34 - Hark! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers: Prepare the way! a God, a God appears! A God, a God! the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim th
Page 105 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 212 - Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. The stars with deep amaze, Stand fix'd in steadfast gaze, Bending one way their precious influence, And will not take their flight, For all the morning light, Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence; But in their glimmering orbs did glow, Until their Lord Himself bespake, and bid them go...
Page 213 - Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Page 196 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Page 88 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 214 - Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Page 110 - The mean, suspicious wretch, whose bolted door Ne'er mov'd in duty to the wandering poor ; With him I left the cup, to teach his mind That Heaven can bless, if mortals will be kind.