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Page 247 - O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea.
Page 156 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So the Lord is round about his people From henceforth even for ever.
Page 73 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 172 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 312 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till, o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb, for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 248 - Jesus! the name that charms our fears, That bids our sorrows cease; 'Tis music in the sinner's ears, 'Tis life, and health, and peace.
Page 146 - And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people ; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Page 324 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Page 95 - For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek : for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Page 84 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport. Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Memorials of South Africa |
| Author | Barnabas Shaw |
| Publisher | J. Mason, 1840 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 12 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 371 pages |
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