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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... darkness , and his beams return Up to the throne of God , and over all The earth comes night , moonless and starless night . " All this , and much more than this , will be realized on that day . And now , poor Christ- despising sinner ...
... darkness , and his beams return Up to the throne of God , and over all The earth comes night , moonless and starless night . " All this , and much more than this , will be realized on that day . And now , poor Christ- despising sinner ...
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... darkness light before them , and crooked things straight . These things will I do unto them , and not forsake them . ' Isa . xlii . 16 . How beautifully descriptive is this of a work of saving grace on a poor sinner's soul ! Whatever ...
... darkness light before them , and crooked things straight . These things will I do unto them , and not forsake them . ' Isa . xlii . 16 . How beautifully descriptive is this of a work of saving grace on a poor sinner's soul ! Whatever ...
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... darkness over the mind , and enfeeble the body . Why shouldest thou not sing , as many have done before thee , " Tho ' troubles assail , And dangers affright , Tho ' friends should all fail , And foes all unite ; Yet one thing secures ...
... darkness over the mind , and enfeeble the body . Why shouldest thou not sing , as many have done before thee , " Tho ' troubles assail , And dangers affright , Tho ' friends should all fail , And foes all unite ; Yet one thing secures ...
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... darkness , and make manifest the secrets and counsels of all hearts , I might reasonably wish I had never been born . Out of Christ , God is a consuming fire . And in Christ he is a reconciled father of mercies , and God of all con ...
... darkness , and make manifest the secrets and counsels of all hearts , I might reasonably wish I had never been born . Out of Christ , God is a consuming fire . And in Christ he is a reconciled father of mercies , and God of all con ...
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... darkness around us , conveys us one stage nearer to an eternal world , how should our hearts , our thoughts and desires be going forward to that rest which remains for the people of God ? Many , very many reasons exist why we should be ...
... darkness around us , conveys us one stage nearer to an eternal world , how should our hearts , our thoughts and desires be going forward to that rest which remains for the people of God ? Many , very many reasons exist why we should be ...
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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.