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... soul.-Dr. Punshon . ADORATION - Defined . Adoration is devout emotion awakened by the thought of what Jehovah is , —— the praise of the divine perfections . - Dr . J. Hamilton . ADORATION . - The Employment of Adoration is the noblest ...
... soul.-Dr. Punshon . ADORATION - Defined . Adoration is devout emotion awakened by the thought of what Jehovah is , —— the praise of the divine perfections . - Dr . J. Hamilton . ADORATION . - The Employment of Adoration is the noblest ...
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... soul has repented and turned to God . They see , as the most beautiful diamond that sparkles on the brow of heaven , the tear that drops from a penitent's eye . Amid the sounds and melolies of cherubim and seraphim about the throne ...
... soul has repented and turned to God . They see , as the most beautiful diamond that sparkles on the brow of heaven , the tear that drops from a penitent's eye . Amid the sounds and melolies of cherubim and seraphim about the throne ...
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... soul cannot prosper in the neglect of it . Apostasy generally begins at the closet door.-P. Henry . APOSTASY . - Misery Resulting from Just as truth and virtue create in the soul a positive heaven of bliss , so their abandonment is ...
... soul cannot prosper in the neglect of it . Apostasy generally begins at the closet door.-P. Henry . APOSTASY . - Misery Resulting from Just as truth and virtue create in the soul a positive heaven of bliss , so their abandonment is ...
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... soul , As thou dost read , a ray of purer light Break in , oh check it not ! give it full scope : Admitted , it will break the clouds which long Have dimmed thy sight , and lead thee , till at last Convictions like the sun's meridian ...
... soul , As thou dost read , a ray of purer light Break in , oh check it not ! give it full scope : Admitted , it will break the clouds which long Have dimmed thy sight , and lead thee , till at last Convictions like the sun's meridian ...
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... soul is the man , and the material body only his house while upon earth , a man is never really buried . No human being since the world began has ever yet been buried - no , not even for a few moments . Buried ! How can a living soul be ...
... soul is the man , and the material body only his house while upon earth , a man is never really buried . No human being since the world began has ever yet been buried - no , not even for a few moments . Buried ! How can a living soul be ...
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Page 59 - 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.
Page 410 - All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghostj teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 38 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Page 486 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, ** Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, ** And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in...
Page 522 - I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause.
Page 561 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 465 - And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place," " it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, 'For he is good, for his mercy endureth forever:' that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord...
Page 562 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels ; by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Page 286 - O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, That takest away the sins of the world : have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world: receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father: have mercy upon us.
Page 591 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.