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... mind has been filled with intense thoughts on God's pure , unchanging , soul - saving Truth ; and he has endeavored to give true sketches , however faint and feeble , of divine and eternal realities not unworthy of the contemplation nor ...
... mind has been filled with intense thoughts on God's pure , unchanging , soul - saving Truth ; and he has endeavored to give true sketches , however faint and feeble , of divine and eternal realities not unworthy of the contemplation nor ...
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... mind less cheer'd by rays of truth divine , A heart more cold , enchain'd by Greenland frost ? Ah ! can the wretch e'er dwell in purest sky , Where God's perfections all in glory shine ? Is he not blinded , cheated , wilder'd , lost ...
... mind less cheer'd by rays of truth divine , A heart more cold , enchain'd by Greenland frost ? Ah ! can the wretch e'er dwell in purest sky , Where God's perfections all in glory shine ? Is he not blinded , cheated , wilder'd , lost ...
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... mind heav'n's purest light , Before which quickly fly all shades of night . And as his daily course the Truth doth run , He sheds a vivifying heat . This done , Each plant of virtue grows up in our sight ; But ev'ry vile imposture feels ...
... mind heav'n's purest light , Before which quickly fly all shades of night . And as his daily course the Truth doth run , He sheds a vivifying heat . This done , Each plant of virtue grows up in our sight ; But ev'ry vile imposture feels ...
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... mind , Who ne'er unruly passions knew to bind , Nor ever learn'd a heav'nly race to run . At last a brother's blood he shed , and won A retribution just ; nor could he find A charity misguided , and so blind , As not to see fit doom for ...
... mind , Who ne'er unruly passions knew to bind , Nor ever learn'd a heav'nly race to run . At last a brother's blood he shed , and won A retribution just ; nor could he find A charity misguided , and so blind , As not to see fit doom for ...
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... mind ; — For thus his friends will dwell with him above , While never - ending ages shall unwind . Lord ! on our souls each grace and virtue trace , So shall we see God's glory in thy face ! 75. ON MY BIRTH - DAY . Written Jan. 2 , 1859 ...
... mind ; — For thus his friends will dwell with him above , While never - ending ages shall unwind . Lord ! on our souls each grace and virtue trace , So shall we see God's glory in thy face ! 75. ON MY BIRTH - DAY . Written Jan. 2 , 1859 ...
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Page 92 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature ; for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist...
Page 88 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen ; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
Page 63 - The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Page 63 - O ! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give : The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves.
Page 68 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 95 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 88 - At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 74 - I see plainly, and with mine own eyes, that there are popes against popes, councils against councils, some fathers against others, the same fathers against themselves, a consent of fathers of one age against a consent of fathers of another age, the church of one age against the church of another age.
Page 84 - And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
Page 88 - Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.