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Page 87 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 66 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 66 - For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law : and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law...
Page 79 - While you labour for any thing below your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet:— Unless above himself he can .Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !
Page 86 - The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
Page 87 - ... in some degree, vanish and flee as shadows from before me. Lo ! I come to Thee — the Eternal Being — the Spring of Life — the Centre of rest — the Stay of the Creation — the Fulness of all things. I join myself to Thee ; with Thee I will lead my life, and spend my days, with whom I aim to dwell for ever, expecting, when my little time is over, to be taken up ere long into thy eternity.
Page 2 - I generally saw human forms of both sexes, but they usually seemed not to take the smallest notice of each other, moving as in a marketplace, where all are eager to press through the crowd ; at times, however, they seemed to be transacting business with each other.
Page 89 - And not rather (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come ? whose damnation is just.
Page 69 - ... must place the Prophet of Nazareth, even in the estimation of those who have no belief in his inspiration, in the very first rank of the men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast.
Page 66 - But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God ; Who will render to every man according to his deeds...