The Life of Edward White Benson: Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume 1Macmillan, 1899 - Bishops |
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Page 43
... prayers he read with difficulty , and was evidently much affected by something or other , for the corners of his mouth were working strangely . However , his voice soon grew stronger , and he read on to the end . Still nothing was known ...
... prayers he read with difficulty , and was evidently much affected by something or other , for the corners of his mouth were working strangely . However , his voice soon grew stronger , and he read on to the end . Still nothing was known ...
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... prayers of the good men , aided by Christ's Spirit , and accepted for Christ's merits , had been a mere mechanical thing , then God was transformed -- he was not our God — the God of Scripture , but a demon . And here Mr Lee's eyes ...
... prayers of the good men , aided by Christ's Spirit , and accepted for Christ's merits , had been a mere mechanical thing , then God was transformed -- he was not our God — the God of Scripture , but a demon . And here Mr Lee's eyes ...
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... prayer man can offer is to commend himself to God because he knows nothing , with the doctrines taught by St Paul , -and the practice which Socrates ' doctrines produced with the practice of the meanest Christian . How poor are such ...
... prayer man can offer is to commend himself to God because he knows nothing , with the doctrines taught by St Paul , -and the practice which Socrates ' doctrines produced with the practice of the meanest Christian . How poor are such ...
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... Prayers for None , after the last Re- sponse ? Do you keep Canonical Hours at all ? By the way — I wanted to mention to you that we should not destroy each other's letters -- let them be kept as a memorial of school days . Even when we ...
... Prayers for None , after the last Re- sponse ? Do you keep Canonical Hours at all ? By the way — I wanted to mention to you that we should not destroy each other's letters -- let them be kept as a memorial of school days . Even when we ...
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... prayer of righteous men that dwelt in them and surely He who has wrought temporal deliverances will work spiritual ones . We may begin this work now . Let our prayers rise up a continual incense before God , for the extension of His ...
... prayer of righteous men that dwelt in them and surely He who has wrought temporal deliverances will work spiritual ones . We may begin this work now . Let our prayers rise up a continual incense before God , for the extension of His ...
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Page 338 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Page 571 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you- ward.
Page 405 - Thou shalt preserve me from trouble: Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
Page 62 - No, indeed: but an obscure, harmless man; a man in poor clothes, his loins usually girt in a coarse gown, or canonical coat; of a mean stature, and stooping, and yet more lowly in the thoughts of his soul; his body worn out, not with age, but study and holy mortifications; his face full of heat-pimples, begot by his unactivity and sedentary life.
Page 327 - Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
Page 453 - This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Page 405 - For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found : surely in the floods- of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Page 261 - He always wins who sides with God, To him no chance is lost ; God's will is sweetest to him, when It triumphs at his cost.
Page 323 - So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid. 20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
Page 114 - I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade : at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.