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... perhaps suggested it . It is remarkable how the saintly Herbert , in one of his poems , has anticipated Bunyan's design . He tells how the pilgrim passed by the cave of desperation , the rock of pride , the meadows of plea- sure , the ...
... perhaps suggested it . It is remarkable how the saintly Herbert , in one of his poems , has anticipated Bunyan's design . He tells how the pilgrim passed by the cave of desperation , the rock of pride , the meadows of plea- sure , the ...
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... perhaps the one above all others who weaved a very attractive and plausible theory of human life , teaching men to derive all the enjoyment they can from this world , irrespective of what revelation tells us concerning the laws of a fu ...
... perhaps the one above all others who weaved a very attractive and plausible theory of human life , teaching men to derive all the enjoyment they can from this world , irrespective of what revelation tells us concerning the laws of a fu ...
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... perhaps , but fulness of peacefulness , of con- solation , of exhortations to high trust in God . Ac- cording to the Jewish Law , at certain seasons there were regular pilgrimages to the Holy City . Far away , from the lonely hill ...
... perhaps , but fulness of peacefulness , of con- solation , of exhortations to high trust in God . Ac- cording to the Jewish Law , at certain seasons there were regular pilgrimages to the Holy City . Far away , from the lonely hill ...
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... perhaps , a prelude to higher work here- after . But it is His will that we should sit lightly to it , should use without abusing it , should remember that it is not our final home . He has placed this pathway before us as the only ...
... perhaps , a prelude to higher work here- after . But it is His will that we should sit lightly to it , should use without abusing it , should remember that it is not our final home . He has placed this pathway before us as the only ...
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... perhaps , to realise this through a prolonged discipline , -perhaps in the se- vere monotony of a laborious , uneventful , and un- adorned life . And yet such a life - long experience may be that which Infinite Wisdom discerns to be the ...
... perhaps , to realise this through a prolonged discipline , -perhaps in the se- vere monotony of a laborious , uneventful , and un- adorned life . And yet such a life - long experience may be that which Infinite Wisdom discerns to be the ...
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Page 79 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord : whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 206 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 253 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness ; like a Man inspired...
Page 285 - Direct, control, suggest, this day, All I design, or do, or say; That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite.
Page 253 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Page 334 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 254 - Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; Or, if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need : — He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images!
Page 303 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Page 252 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it ; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself; that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie form a habit of insensibility, to all moral considerations.
Page 144 - And there should be no greater comfort to Christian persons, than to be made like unto Christ, by suffering patiently adversities, troubles, and sicknesses. For he himself went not up to joy, but first he suffered pain ; he entered not into his glory before he was crucified. So truly our way to eternal joy is to suffer here with Christ ; and our door to enter into eternal life is gladly to die with Christ ; that we may rise again from death, and dwell with him in everlasting life.