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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... fancte Opifex , ades , Et patrocinio protege me tuo . Which may be adapted to the matter in hand thus ; The truth which hell may criticise , Great God , be near to patronize . A POEM , DEDICATED TO THE REV . MR . 18 PREFACE .
... fancte Opifex , ades , Et patrocinio protege me tuo . Which may be adapted to the matter in hand thus ; The truth which hell may criticise , Great God , be near to patronize . A POEM , DEDICATED TO THE REV . MR . 18 PREFACE .
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... hell's dark regions at the prefent hifs , The God of glory thy ftrong refuge is . Mere moral preachers have no pow'r to charm , Thy lines are fuch my nobler paffions warm ; Thefe glorious truths have fet my heart on fire , And while I ...
... hell's dark regions at the prefent hifs , The God of glory thy ftrong refuge is . Mere moral preachers have no pow'r to charm , Thy lines are fuch my nobler paffions warm ; Thefe glorious truths have fet my heart on fire , And while I ...
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... hell ! But , on fo vaft a fubject , who can find Words fuiting the conceptions of his mind ? Or , if our language with our thought could vie , What mortal thought can raise itself fo high ? When words and thoughts both fail , may faith ...
... hell ! But , on fo vaft a fubject , who can find Words fuiting the conceptions of his mind ? Or , if our language with our thought could vie , What mortal thought can raise itself fo high ? When words and thoughts both fail , may faith ...
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... hell's alluring art , Did , difobedient , from the rule depart ; Devour'd the bait , and , by his bold offence , Fell from his blissful ftate of innocence . * Proftrate , he loft his God , his life , his crown , From all his glory ...
... hell's alluring art , Did , difobedient , from the rule depart ; Devour'd the bait , and , by his bold offence , Fell from his blissful ftate of innocence . * Proftrate , he loft his God , his life , his crown , From all his glory ...
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... hell . Oh ! unexampled love ! fo vaft , so strong , So great , fo high , fo deep , fo broad , fo long ! Can finite thought this ocean huge explore ,. Unconscious of a bottom or a shore ? His love admits no parallel ; for why ? At one ...
... hell . Oh ! unexampled love ! fo vaft , so strong , So great , fo high , fo deep , fo broad , fo long ! Can finite thought this ocean huge explore ,. Unconscious of a bottom or a shore ? His love admits no parallel ; for why ? At one ...
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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.