The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the YearW. Baxter, 1827 - 367 pages |
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... Father and the Son , May be left , but not alone . Sick or healthful , slave or free , Wealthy , or despis'd and poor- What is that to him or thee , So his love to Christ endure ? When the shore is won at last , Who will count the ...
... Father and the Son , May be left , but not alone . Sick or healthful , slave or free , Wealthy , or despis'd and poor- What is that to him or thee , So his love to Christ endure ? When the shore is won at last , Who will count the ...
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... d them in his holy arms , He bless'd them from the world and all its harms : Heirs though they were of sin and shame , He bless'd them in his own and in his Father's name . Then , as each fond unconscious child On th '
... d them in his holy arms , He bless'd them from the world and all its harms : Heirs though they were of sin and shame , He bless'd them in his own and in his Father's name . Then , as each fond unconscious child On th '
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... more may smile : - Can these th ' avenging bolt delay , Or win us back one little day The bitterness of death to soften and beguile ? Father and Lover of our souls ! Though darkly round First Sunday after Christmas . 35.
... more may smile : - Can these th ' avenging bolt delay , Or win us back one little day The bitterness of death to soften and beguile ? Father and Lover of our souls ! Though darkly round First Sunday after Christmas . 35.
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Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year John Keble. Father and Lover of our souls ! Though darkly round thine anger rolls , Thy sunshine smiles beneath the gloom , Thou seek'st to warn us , not confound , Thy ...
Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year John Keble. Father and Lover of our souls ! Though darkly round thine anger rolls , Thy sunshine smiles beneath the gloom , Thou seek'st to warn us , not confound , Thy ...
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... those , Heaven deign'd to praise ? In spirit may'st thou meet With faithful Abraham here , Whom soon in Eden thou shalt greet A nursing Father dear . Wouldst thou a Poet be ? And would thy dull Circumcision of Christ . 39.
... those , Heaven deign'd to praise ? In spirit may'st thou meet With faithful Abraham here , Whom soon in Eden thou shalt greet A nursing Father dear . Wouldst thou a Poet be ? And would thy dull Circumcision of Christ . 39.
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Page 220 - Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 163 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire ; and it sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost ; and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Page 206 - And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Page 225 - And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed ? but where are the nine ? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
Page 355 - Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.
Page 301 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 243 - He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Page 141 - I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 164 - WHEN God of old came down from heaven, in power and wrath he came; before his feet the clouds were riven, half darkness and half flame.
Page 352 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow : and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.