Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with Notices Biographical and Critical, Volumen2Robert Carter and Bros., 1859 |
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... Wheel , 178 JOHN HOWE , 179 • Early Death , 184 Following Jesus in the Dark , 186 The Delightful Certainty of Dying , 187 A Plurality of Worlds , 190 Hope for England , 194 1 CONTENTS . vii PAGE A Temple in Ruins , 197 vi CONTENTS .
... Wheel , 178 JOHN HOWE , 179 • Early Death , 184 Following Jesus in the Dark , 186 The Delightful Certainty of Dying , 187 A Plurality of Worlds , 190 Hope for England , 194 1 CONTENTS . vii PAGE A Temple in Ruins , 197 vi CONTENTS .
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... delightful and more strange than if he had taken Dr Wilkins ' lunar journey . In this biography , as in a magician's mirror , he was awed and startled by fore- shadowings of his own career ; and , ever since he sat at the feet of yonder ...
... delightful and more strange than if he had taken Dr Wilkins ' lunar journey . In this biography , as in a magician's mirror , he was awed and startled by fore- shadowings of his own career ; and , ever since he sat at the feet of yonder ...
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... delight and a complacency unto the mind in the exercise of itself , and communication of its effects . A good man doth both delight in doing good , and hath an abundant reward for the doing it , in the doing of it ; " and how can we ...
... delight and a complacency unto the mind in the exercise of itself , and communication of its effects . A good man doth both delight in doing good , and hath an abundant reward for the doing it , in the doing of it ; " and how can we ...
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... delightful reminiscences of Dr Chalmers , Mr J. J. Gurney says , " I often think that particular men bear about with them an analogy to par- ticular animals : Chalmers is like a good - tempered lion ; Wilberforce is like a bee . " Dr ...
... delightful reminiscences of Dr Chalmers , Mr J. J. Gurney says , " I often think that particular men bear about with them an analogy to par- ticular animals : Chalmers is like a good - tempered lion ; Wilberforce is like a bee . " Dr ...
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... delighted in the exercise of the sword , in which he is related to have been eminently skilful . His eyes are said never to have been bright ; but if he was a dexterous fencer , they must have been once quick . His domestic habits , so ...
... delighted in the exercise of the sword , in which he is related to have been eminently skilful . His eyes are said never to have been bright ; but if he was a dexterous fencer , they must have been once quick . His domestic habits , so ...
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Página 64 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou sun of this great world, both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Página 143 - He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide.
Página 64 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! Thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 250 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Página 54 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Página 56 - But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Página 51 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 162 - He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man : the field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
Página 59 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Página 167 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.