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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... never promised much to them that seek nothing but pleasure and fatisfaction_to their fancy ; but I have heard , that it has done fome fer- vice ( and I hope , through the bleffing of Heaven , it may yet do more ) to them that feek ...
... never promised much to them that seek nothing but pleasure and fatisfaction_to their fancy ; but I have heard , that it has done fome fer- vice ( and I hope , through the bleffing of Heaven , it may yet do more ) to them that feek ...
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... never ending life to give To them , whofe malice would not let him live ; To make a match with rebels , and efpoufe The brat which at his love her fpite avows . Himself he humbled to depress her pride , And make his mortal foe his ...
... never ending life to give To them , whofe malice would not let him live ; To make a match with rebels , and efpoufe The brat which at his love her fpite avows . Himself he humbled to depress her pride , And make his mortal foe his ...
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... never took away , § To God his glory , to the law its due , To heav'n its honour , to the earth its hue , To man a righteousness divine , complete , A royal robe to fuit the nuptial rite . He in her favours , whom he lov'd fo well , At ...
... never took away , § To God his glory , to the law its due , To heav'n its honour , to the earth its hue , To man a righteousness divine , complete , A royal robe to fuit the nuptial rite . He in her favours , whom he lov'd fo well , At ...
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... never build the house . Mistake not here , proud mortal , don't mistake , God changes not , nor other terms will make . Will divine faithfulness itself deny , Which fwore folemnly , Man fhall do , or die Will God moft true extend to us ...
... never build the house . Mistake not here , proud mortal , don't mistake , God changes not , nor other terms will make . Will divine faithfulness itself deny , Which fwore folemnly , Man fhall do , or die Will God moft true extend to us ...
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... never spent , Might poor infolvent debtors well content ; But to hell - prifon justly Heaven will doom Proud fools that on their petty stock presume . The fofteft couch that gilded nature knows , Can give the waken'd confcience no ...
... never spent , Might poor infolvent debtors well content ; But to hell - prifon justly Heaven will doom Proud fools that on their petty stock presume . The fofteft couch that gilded nature knows , Can give the waken'd confcience no ...
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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.