Gospel Sonnets: Or, Spiritual Songs. In Six Parts ... Concerning Creation and Redemption, Law and Gospel, Justification and Sanctification, Faith and Sense, Heaven and EarthPenniman & Bliss; O. Penniman, printers, 1806 - 324 pages |
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... should so much employ it in furnishing our theatrical entertainments , or upon ludicrous and profane trifles . How happy would it have been for the world , what an ornament to Christianity and advantage to the church ; and how honouring ...
... should so much employ it in furnishing our theatrical entertainments , or upon ludicrous and profane trifles . How happy would it have been for the world , what an ornament to Christianity and advantage to the church ; and how honouring ...
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... should " fhine unto them , " 2 Cor . vi . 3 . But Again , if you fearch the scriptures , you will fee many more proofs for every point than I have adduced , and perhaps many much more appofite ; for these only are fet down at the bottom ...
... should " fhine unto them , " 2 Cor . vi . 3 . But Again , if you fearch the scriptures , you will fee many more proofs for every point than I have adduced , and perhaps many much more appofite ; for these only are fet down at the bottom ...
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... Should finful modelty the match decline , Until its garb be brisk and superfine ; Alas ! when should we fee the marriage day ? The happy bargain muft flee up for ay . Prefumptuous fouls in furly modefty , Half faviours themselves would ...
... Should finful modelty the match decline , Until its garb be brisk and superfine ; Alas ! when should we fee the marriage day ? The happy bargain muft flee up for ay . Prefumptuous fouls in furly modefty , Half faviours themselves would ...
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... should rife , though the fhould fall , And to be nothing , that he may be all ; Content that he , because fhe nought could do , Do for her all her work , and in her too . } } Here the a peremptory mind difplays , That he do 48 PART I ...
... should rife , though the fhould fall , And to be nothing , that he may be all ; Content that he , because fhe nought could do , Do for her all her work , and in her too . } } Here the a peremptory mind difplays , That he do 48 PART I ...
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... should be all reveal'd , The sweetest part of Chrift is oft conceal'd . We bid men turn from fin , but feldom fay , Behold the Lamb that takes all fin away ! ' Christ , by the gofpel rightly understood , Not only treats a peace , but ...
... should be all reveal'd , The sweetest part of Chrift is oft conceal'd . We bid men turn from fin , but feldom fay , Behold the Lamb that takes all fin away ! ' Christ , by the gofpel rightly understood , Not only treats a peace , but ...
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Page 159 - This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Page 276 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 178 - But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach...
Page 202 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Page 172 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 172 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how...
Page 201 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that, for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 147 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 274 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord ; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts...
Page 279 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.