Ears of corn from various sheaves: thoughts for the closet, ed. by S. Lettis1851 |
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... strength , and my redeemer . He must know little of the world , and still less of his own heart , who is not aware how difficult it is amidst the corrupting examples with which it abounds , to main- tain the spirit of devotion ...
... strength , and my redeemer . He must know little of the world , and still less of his own heart , who is not aware how difficult it is amidst the corrupting examples with which it abounds , to main- tain the spirit of devotion ...
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... strength by a devout application to the Fountain of all grace.— Robert Hall . To attain clear and just views of our duties in their full extent , of the various virtues and excellences which belong to our nature and state , and which ...
... strength by a devout application to the Fountain of all grace.— Robert Hall . To attain clear and just views of our duties in their full extent , of the various virtues and excellences which belong to our nature and state , and which ...
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... from the cares and concern- ments of this world , to a sense and desire of heavenly things . By it , God imparteth strength to subdue bad inclinations , to restrain sensual appetites , to compress irregular 6 PRAYER .
... from the cares and concern- ments of this world , to a sense and desire of heavenly things . By it , God imparteth strength to subdue bad inclinations , to restrain sensual appetites , to compress irregular 6 PRAYER .
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... is requisite that our souls also ( no less than our bodies ) , should have their meals , settled at such intervals as the maintenance of their life , their health , their strength and vigour do require ; SEASONS OF PRAYER.
... is requisite that our souls also ( no less than our bodies ) , should have their meals , settled at such intervals as the maintenance of their life , their health , their strength and vigour do require ; SEASONS OF PRAYER.
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Ears Sarah Lettis. their health , their strength and vigour do require ; that they may not perish or languish for want of timely repasts ; that a good appetite may duly spring up , prompting and instigating them , that a sound temper and ...
Ears Sarah Lettis. their health , their strength and vigour do require ; that they may not perish or languish for want of timely repasts ; that a good appetite may duly spring up , prompting and instigating them , that a sound temper and ...
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Seite 120 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Seite 120 - We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Seite 141 - It is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Seite 91 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over, he is superior ; for it is a prince's part to pardon : and Solomon, I am sure, saith, " It is the " glory of a man to pass by an offence.
Seite 140 - MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a 'tribute due unto nature, is wealc, Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Seite 65 - Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. 26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Seite 19 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Seite 82 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Seite 23 - And I will place within them as a guide, My umpire Conscience ; whom if they will hear, Light after light, well us'd, they shall attain, And to the end, persisting, safe arrive.
Seite 18 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection; the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thought*, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...