Meditations and ContemplationsW.W. Woodward, 1809 - 371 pages |
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Page vi
... sacred language . It appears from his letters to his sister in 1733 and 1734 , that though he then shewed a pious and serious turn ; yet these letters either speak a language different from free grace , for which we find he was ...
... sacred language . It appears from his letters to his sister in 1733 and 1734 , that though he then shewed a pious and serious turn ; yet these letters either speak a language different from free grace , for which we find he was ...
Page xxix
... sacred themes belong , Pour forth the sweetly - melancholy song ! • The reader may be assured , that these verses were wrote by a very serious and well - disposed young man , apprentice to a Jer- sey comber , in the town of Northampton ...
... sacred themes belong , Pour forth the sweetly - melancholy song ! • The reader may be assured , that these verses were wrote by a very serious and well - disposed young man , apprentice to a Jer- sey comber , in the town of Northampton ...
Page xxxv
... sacred beauties beam throughout the whole , To charm the sense , and steal upon the soul ! In classic elegance , and thoughts - his own , We see our faults , as in a mirror shown : Each truth in glaring characters exprest , All own the ...
... sacred beauties beam throughout the whole , To charm the sense , and steal upon the soul ! In classic elegance , and thoughts - his own , We see our faults , as in a mirror shown : Each truth in glaring characters exprest , All own the ...
Page xxxvi
... sacred truths shall reach th ' impervious heart : Discord shall cease , Disease forget to smart : Ev'n malice , love , and calumny commend ; Pride beg an alms , and av'rice turn a friend . Center'd in CHRIST , who fires the soul within ...
... sacred truths shall reach th ' impervious heart : Discord shall cease , Disease forget to smart : Ev'n malice , love , and calumny commend ; Pride beg an alms , and av'rice turn a friend . Center'd in CHRIST , who fires the soul within ...
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... sacred plan , What reverence of God ! what love to man ! O ! when at last our deathless forms shall rise , And flow'rs and stars desist to moralize ; Shall then my soul , by thine inform'd survey , And bear the splendors of essential ...
... sacred plan , What reverence of God ! what love to man ! O ! when at last our deathless forms shall rise , And flow'rs and stars desist to moralize ; Shall then my soul , by thine inform'd survey , And bear the splendors of essential ...
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Page 75 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 222 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 70 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 351 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; " While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 112 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 137 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Page 112 - Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth : there will I give thee my loves.
Page 89 - Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 337 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
Page 106 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.