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... hope his friends will pardon ( now he is dead ) as being the last duty I can perform to a loving hus- band . Those that see with what pen his works are * Not much is known of Quarles's family : his son JOHN has found a biographer in ...
... hope his friends will pardon ( now he is dead ) as being the last duty I can perform to a loving hus- band . Those that see with what pen his works are * Not much is known of Quarles's family : his son JOHN has found a biographer in ...
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... hope it will not be ex- pected from me ; seeing that neither the judgement of my sex can be thought competent , nor ( if it were ) would the nearness of my relation to him suffer me to praise that , at commendations whereof , from ...
... hope it will not be ex- pected from me ; seeing that neither the judgement of my sex can be thought competent , nor ( if it were ) would the nearness of my relation to him suffer me to praise that , at commendations whereof , from ...
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... hope ; quicken my charity ; sweeten my thoughts with thy grace ; season any words with thy Spirit ; sanctify my actions with thy wisdom ; subdue the insolence of my rebellious flesh ; restrain the fury of my unbridled passions ; reform ...
... hope ; quicken my charity ; sweeten my thoughts with thy grace ; season any words with thy Spirit ; sanctify my actions with thy wisdom ; subdue the insolence of my rebellious flesh ; restrain the fury of my unbridled passions ; reform ...
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... hope to enter without break- ing ? The bubble that would pass the floodgates , must first dissolve . My soul , melt then in tears , and empty thyself of all thy vanity , and thou shalt find divinę repletion ; evaporate in devotion , and ...
... hope to enter without break- ing ? The bubble that would pass the floodgates , must first dissolve . My soul , melt then in tears , and empty thyself of all thy vanity , and thou shalt find divinę repletion ; evaporate in devotion , and ...
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... hope , he being so good a churchman , and so great a scholar , and speaking Latin too , would not leave that to so simple a man as I. It is enough for me to know that God is a good man , and that the ten commandments are the best ...
... hope , he being so good a churchman , and so great a scholar , and speaking Latin too , would not leave that to so simple a man as I. It is enough for me to know that God is a good man , and that the ten commandments are the best ...
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Judgment and Mercy // For // Afflicted Souls: [In Red] Or, // Meditations ... Reginald Wolfe,Francis Quarles No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 98 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God...
Page 215 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 189 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 122 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested...
Page 328 - For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Page 37 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Page 131 - Let us not therefore judge one another any more : but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Page 166 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day ; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee : Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Page 311 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
Page 71 - Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.