Scripture References illustrated with Sacred Poetry, compiled by Two Sabbath School Teachers; with introductory remarks by the Rev. John N. WoodroffeJohn N Woodroffe Hamilton, Adams & Company, 1839 - 370 pages |
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... never be without a book in daily reading of a direct Scriptural nature . " To those who will thus peruse it , it may serve at least as an index to point to some subject of Divine instruction suitable to their peculiar circumstances ...
... never be without a book in daily reading of a direct Scriptural nature . " To those who will thus peruse it , it may serve at least as an index to point to some subject of Divine instruction suitable to their peculiar circumstances ...
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... never , until we come with a child - like spirit , can we feel the energy of its doctrines , bend submissively beneath its exhortations , or enter into the refreshing comforts which the rich variety of its spiritual treasury affords ...
... never , until we come with a child - like spirit , can we feel the energy of its doctrines , bend submissively beneath its exhortations , or enter into the refreshing comforts which the rich variety of its spiritual treasury affords ...
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... never failed of producing a holy walk , and leaving this instructive lesson upon the mind of its recipient , that there is a characteristic feature of wisdom and power upon all the ways and revelations of God which stamps them with the ...
... never failed of producing a holy walk , and leaving this instructive lesson upon the mind of its recipient , that there is a characteristic feature of wisdom and power upon all the ways and revelations of God which stamps them with the ...
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... never let them be placed in the stead of the word itself ; in its pure and unalloyed pages do we find that nourishment which is suitable to the heavenly nature of the soul . Much do I fear that it is an evil especially peculiar to our ...
... never let them be placed in the stead of the word itself ; in its pure and unalloyed pages do we find that nourishment which is suitable to the heavenly nature of the soul . Much do I fear that it is an evil especially peculiar to our ...
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... xii . 11 . Thy Word , O God , with heavenly bread Thy children doth supply ; And those who by thy Word are fed , Their souls shall never die . C. Wesley . WORD OF TRUTH . Psalm cxix . 43. John xvii B 2 WITH SACRED POETRY . NAMES.-ARE ...
... xii . 11 . Thy Word , O God , with heavenly bread Thy children doth supply ; And those who by thy Word are fed , Their souls shall never die . C. Wesley . WORD OF TRUTH . Psalm cxix . 43. John xvii B 2 WITH SACRED POETRY . NAMES.-ARE ...
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Page 200 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page 180 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps...
Page 334 - JOY to the world ; -the Lord is come : Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth; the Saviour reigns: Let men their songs employ ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy.
Page 300 - So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I : if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.
Page 336 - Rise, crowned with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes! See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
Page 251 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Page 242 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 14 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song ; where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles, 'tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.
Page 313 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due, and sacred song...
Page 220 - One family we dwell in Him, One Church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream, of death : One army of the living God, To His command we bow ; Part of His host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now.