Gospel Sonnets: Or, Spiritual Songs. In Six Parts ... Concerning Creation and Redemption, Law and Gospel, Justification and Sanctification, Faith and Sense, Heaven and Earth |
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... ftand in no need of gay trimmings and poetical embel- lishments to fet them off ; yet fuch is the fuperior ex- cellency of infpired poefy , that the brightest and most elevated defcriptions of a mortal pen muft vail to it : and ...
... ftand in no need of gay trimmings and poetical embel- lishments to fet them off ; yet fuch is the fuperior ex- cellency of infpired poefy , that the brightest and most elevated defcriptions of a mortal pen muft vail to it : and ...
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... ftand firm upon a fcriptural foundation , none of them want . authority , and that of the highest nature , except in the account of mockers , and thofe ( of whom there are too many in our day ) that are either Deifts , who underva- lue ...
... ftand firm upon a fcriptural foundation , none of them want . authority , and that of the highest nature , except in the account of mockers , and thofe ( of whom there are too many in our day ) that are either Deifts , who underva- lue ...
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... ftand to his uplifted stroke . They must ingulph themselves in endless woes , Who to the living God are deadly foes ; Who natively his holy will gainsay , Muft to his awful justice fall a prey . In vain do mankind now expect , in vain ...
... ftand to his uplifted stroke . They must ingulph themselves in endless woes , Who to the living God are deadly foes ; Who natively his holy will gainsay , Muft to his awful justice fall a prey . In vain do mankind now expect , in vain ...
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... ftand aghaft , Prefs'd with the dread of hell , fhe'll rafhly patch , And halve a bargain with the profer'd match ; In hopes his help , together with her own , Will turn to peaceful fmiles the wrathful frown . Through grace the rifing ...
... ftand aghaft , Prefs'd with the dread of hell , fhe'll rafhly patch , And halve a bargain with the profer'd match ; In hopes his help , together with her own , Will turn to peaceful fmiles the wrathful frown . Through grace the rifing ...
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... ftand Beneath the terror of his lifted hand ! Our fafety lies beyond the natʼral line , Beneath a purple covert all divine . Yet how is precious Chrift , the way , defpis'd , And high the way of life by doing priz'd ! But can its vot ...
... ftand Beneath the terror of his lifted hand ! Our fafety lies beyond the natʼral line , Beneath a purple covert all divine . Yet how is precious Chrift , the way , defpis'd , And high the way of life by doing priz'd ! But can its vot ...
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Page 159 - This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Page 276 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 178 - But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach...
Page 202 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Page 172 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 172 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how...
Page 201 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that, for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 147 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 274 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord ; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts...
Page 279 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.