 Since the dear hour, that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped but in thy righteousness divine...  Poems - Page 102by William Cowper - 1782 - 359 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...on your brow, That all your virtues cannot purchase now. All joy to the believer ! He can speak — Trembling yet happy, confident yet meek. Since the...foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hop'd, but in thy righteousness divine : My pray'rs and alms, imperfect... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pages
...Cowper express most admirably the lowly, self-renouncing, dependent spirit of the true Christian : — "Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped but in thy righteousness divine : My prayers and alms, imperfect... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 pages
...upon the heads of persecutors and slanderers. He would exclaim with the pious and pensive Cowper, ' Since the dear hour, that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hop'd but in thy righteousness divine : — Cast at thy glorious feet,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...glories on your brow, That all your virtues cannot purchase now. All joy to the believer! he can speak, Trembling yet happy, confident yet meek. Since the...foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped but in thy righteousness divine : My prayers and alms, imperfeet... | |
 | 1839 - 678 pages
...for support and comfort. " OH, yet !" he said ; and then repeated those beautiful lines of Cowper: " Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, 1 never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped, but in thy righteousness divine ; My prayers and alms,... | |
 | Spirit - 1840 - 406 pages
...conveyed the feelings of such a one, when describing him as saying, as he heholds the Redeemer : — "Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped but in thy righteousness divine ; My prayers and alms, imperfect... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...your brow, That all your virtues cannot purchase now. 570 All joy to the believer ! He can speak — Trembling, yet happy ; confident, yet meek. Since...foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, 575 Nor hop'd, but in thy righteousness divine : My pray'rs and alms,... | |
 | H. D. - 1843 - 438 pages
...on your brow, That all your virtues cannot purchase now. All joy to the believer ! he can speak — Trembling, yet happy, confident yet meek. " Since...foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but Thine, Nor hop'd but in Thy righteousness divine ; My prayers and alms, imperfect... | |
 | Sketch - 1843 - 312 pages
...conveyed the feelings of such a one, when describing him as saving, as he beholds the Redeemer : — " Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped but in thy righteousness divine : My prayers and alms, imperfect... | |
 | John Russell Hurd - 1844 - 858 pages
...on your brow, That all your virtues cannot purchase now. All joy to the believer ! He can speak— Trembling, yet happy ; confident, yet meek. Since...foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hop'd but in thy righteousness divine : ****** ****** * * * my only... | |
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