Evening meditations; or, A series of reflections on various passages of holy Scripture and Scriptural poetry, by the author of The retrospect &cJames Nisbet and Company, 1838 - 366 pages |
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... body , fearfully and wonderfully as it is made , is , in its present nature , a corruptible body . " One of the most striking characteristics of the human frame , in its present state , is its universal tendency to decay . This ...
... body , fearfully and wonderfully as it is made , is , in its present nature , a corruptible body . " One of the most striking characteristics of the human frame , in its present state , is its universal tendency to decay . This ...
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... body and absent from the Lord . Yet will the Lord Jehovah extend his peace as a river - it shall flow on , and it shall widen , and deepen in all the blessings and enjoy- ments of still nearer and sweeter communion with God and his ...
... body and absent from the Lord . Yet will the Lord Jehovah extend his peace as a river - it shall flow on , and it shall widen , and deepen in all the blessings and enjoy- ments of still nearer and sweeter communion with God and his ...
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... body's humiliation . It removes the person from every earthly attachment and every earth - born hope and prospect beneath the sun . It is indeed a token of righteous displea- sure against sin . Every dying couch proclaims , that man has ...
... body's humiliation . It removes the person from every earthly attachment and every earth - born hope and prospect beneath the sun . It is indeed a token of righteous displea- sure against sin . Every dying couch proclaims , that man has ...
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... body , and to all the anxieties and conflicts of the soul ! At once the unseen world bursts on their view ! at once , joy unspeakable and full of glory takes possession of the soul ; at once , mortality is swallowed up of life , -all in ...
... body , and to all the anxieties and conflicts of the soul ! At once the unseen world bursts on their view ! at once , joy unspeakable and full of glory takes possession of the soul ; at once , mortality is swallowed up of life , -all in ...
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... body may inherit from its parents , or have incurred by accidents , may greatly depress the animal spirits , and throw a melancholy desponding gloom over the mind , quite independent of religious feelings . In these cases , the gospel ...
... body may inherit from its parents , or have incurred by accidents , may greatly depress the animal spirits , and throw a melancholy desponding gloom over the mind , quite independent of religious feelings . In these cases , the gospel ...
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Page 199 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 39 - Bent all on pleasure, heedless of its end. But He, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Called for a cloud to darken all their years, And said ' Go spend them in the vale of tears...
Page 277 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 48 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 352 - Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Page 122 - Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field : but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Page 329 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 94 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 234 - Man may trouble and distress me, 'Twill but drive me to thy breast ; Life with trials hard may press me, Heaven will bring me sweeter rest. Oh, 'tis not in grief to harm me, While thy love is left to me ; Oh, 'twere not in joy to charm me, Were that joy unmixed with thee.
Page 2 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying, none were blest.