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Page 83 - was retreating—Nature hid her face from him for ever, for never more to him returned — " Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, " Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, " Or flocks or herds, or human face divine." — What was the refuge of the deserted veteran from penury—from
Page 418 - he said, I will destroy man, whom " I have created, from the face of the earth, " both man and beast, and the creeping thing, " and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me " that I have made them;" and accordingly the flood came down upon the world of the ungodly. Then look to Sodom and Gomorrah
Page xii - SERMON IV. Matthew, xiii. 44. The kingdom of Heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field
Page 129 - man should cast seed in the ground; and " should sleep, and rise night and day, and " the seed should spring and grow up, he " knoweth not how—first the blade—then " the ear—after that, the full corn in the " ear.
Page 339 - henceforth live unto themselves, " but unto him who died for them, and rose " again." If you reject this sacrifice, then no price has been paid for you, or it has been paid in vain; you do not acknowledge it; you must save yourself, without hoping that one single drop of your
Page 284 - Saviour." He will command his star to rise for you in the East, and it shall stand over the place where your treasure lies. There go, and ye shall find that " which cannot be gotten for " gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the " price thereof. It cannot be valued with the " gold of Ophir, with the onyx, or the
Page 250 - what new desires, nay, what new passions would you find, as it were, introduced into your heart! what a stranger would you find yourself in the midst of those things among which you were perfectly at home ! " How is the gold become dim, " how is the most fine gold changed !" " How " are the riches corrupted, and the garments " moth-eaten!
Page 1 - SERMON XII. 1 Corinthians, xiii. 12, 13. Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, these
Page 2 - 11. PAGE Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily; therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them
Page 399 - know, even as also I am known. And now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity,—these three; but the greatest of these is Charity. It must sometimes appear very extraordinary, that God has not thought fit to give us more information respecting the pains and pleasures of the world to which we are fast approaching. We know, indeed, that there are the torments of hell and the delights of