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... sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him in ful- ness of joy . We If we would be thus happy , and thus sensible of our Maker's presence , from the secret effects of his mercy and ...
... sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him in ful- ness of joy . We If we would be thus happy , and thus sensible of our Maker's presence , from the secret effects of his mercy and ...
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... sight of so many inven- tions I could not but imagine myself in a kind of arsenal or magazine where store of arms was re- posited against any sudden invasion . Should you be attacked by the enemy sideways , here was an infallible piece ...
... sight of so many inven- tions I could not but imagine myself in a kind of arsenal or magazine where store of arms was re- posited against any sudden invasion . Should you be attacked by the enemy sideways , here was an infallible piece ...
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... sight of those objects , which were made to affect him by that Being who knows the inward frame of a soul , and how to please and ra- vish it in all its most secret powers and faculties . It is to this majestic presence of God we may ...
... sight of those objects , which were made to affect him by that Being who knows the inward frame of a soul , and how to please and ra- vish it in all its most secret powers and faculties . It is to this majestic presence of God we may ...
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... sight and imagination , though it is highly probable that our other senses may here likewise enjoy their highest gratifications . There is nothing which more ravishes and transports the soul than harmony ; and we have great reason to ...
... sight and imagination , though it is highly probable that our other senses may here likewise enjoy their highest gratifications . There is nothing which more ravishes and transports the soul than harmony ; and we have great reason to ...
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... sight of her person ? The lowings of my herds , and the bleatings of my flocks , make a pleasant echo in thy mountains , and sound sweetly in thy ears . What though I am delighted with the wavings of thy forests , and those breezes of ...
... sight of her person ? The lowings of my herds , and the bleatings of my flocks , make a pleasant echo in thy mountains , and sound sweetly in thy ears . What though I am delighted with the wavings of thy forests , and those breezes of ...
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Page 63 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 246 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 229 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 28 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
Page 41 - I write (whether I consist of all the same substance, material or immaterial, or no) that I was yesterday; for as to this point of being the same self, it matters not whether this present self be made up of the same or other substances...
Page 199 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Page 26 - When Pittacus, after the death of his brother, who had left him a good estate, was offered a great sum of money by the king of Lydia, he thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, Content is natural wealth, says 20 Socrates; to which I shall add, Luxury is artificial poverty.
Page 54 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 133 - ... we divide the soul into several powers and faculties, there is no such division in the soul itself, since it is the whole soul that remembers, understands, wills, or imagines. Our manner of considering the memory, understanding, will, imagination, and the like, faculties, is for the better enabling us to express ourselves in such abstracted subjects of speculation, not that there is any such division in the soul itself.
Page 10 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.