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... thou aspire to happiness ? SEABURY has shown the way that leads to it . " The organization of the Church in Connecticut , du- To obviate the objections made in England , a special convention of the clergy was called at Wallingford , and ...
... thou aspire to happiness ? SEABURY has shown the way that leads to it . " The organization of the Church in Connecticut , du- To obviate the objections made in England , a special convention of the clergy was called at Wallingford , and ...
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... thou , to subdue The Communion Office , or order for the adminis - Joy's effervescence , to unstring the nerve , tration of the Holy Eucharist , or Supper of our Lord , And stretch the strong man , like the powerless babe , with Private ...
... thou , to subdue The Communion Office , or order for the adminis - Joy's effervescence , to unstring the nerve , tration of the Holy Eucharist , or Supper of our Lord , And stretch the strong man , like the powerless babe , with Private ...
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... thou in deep despair Perchance hadst said , thou ne'er should see again , Make a thank offering of thy heart to God , And if thou e'er from his dear Cross hast shrank , Embrace it now , and be the life he spared From the dark billows ...
... thou in deep despair Perchance hadst said , thou ne'er should see again , Make a thank offering of thy heart to God , And if thou e'er from his dear Cross hast shrank , Embrace it now , and be the life he spared From the dark billows ...
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... thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood , Make me to be numbered with thy saints in glory ever- lasting . O Lord , let thy mercy be upon me , as my trust is in thee . O Lord , in thee have I trusted ; let me never be confounded ...
... thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood , Make me to be numbered with thy saints in glory ever- lasting . O Lord , let thy mercy be upon me , as my trust is in thee . O Lord , in thee have I trusted ; let me never be confounded ...
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... Thou too giv'st those tears consoling , Which in secret oft are rolling , Bringing with them thoughts of gladness O'er our own dark griefs and sadness . When kind fortune's gales are blowing On our friends , thou then art glowing BOOK ...
... Thou too giv'st those tears consoling , Which in secret oft are rolling , Bringing with them thoughts of gladness O'er our own dark griefs and sadness . When kind fortune's gales are blowing On our friends , thou then art glowing BOOK ...
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Page 154 - Now, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
Page 146 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 94 - Christian life: remembering always, that baptism doth represent unto us our profession ; which is, to follow the example of our Saviour CHRIST, and to be made like unto him; that as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.
Page 287 - And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical...
Page 253 - And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me.
Page 113 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 154 - And my speech, and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 286 - Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement.
Page 314 - I would not live alway ; no, welcome the tomb, Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom; There, sweet be my rest, till he bid me arise To hail him in triumph descending the skies.
Page 35 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.