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... ' fires . Nor quench'd that light , the Norman's slavish knell That rung to bury lore - the curfew - bell : " Tis Oxford yet - old mother of the sage Bearing new giants in our barren age : A thousand 28 ATHANASION .
... ' fires . Nor quench'd that light , the Norman's slavish knell That rung to bury lore - the curfew - bell : " Tis Oxford yet - old mother of the sage Bearing new giants in our barren age : A thousand 28 ATHANASION .
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... thousand years - and seeds that then took root , Spring now to birth , and scatter golden fruit : A thousand years - and Oxford yet shall be , With her old Faith , old Lore , and Loyalty ! On Isis ' banks , go see where Alfred dwelt ...
... thousand years - and seeds that then took root , Spring now to birth , and scatter golden fruit : A thousand years - and Oxford yet shall be , With her old Faith , old Lore , and Loyalty ! On Isis ' banks , go see where Alfred dwelt ...
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... thousand tomes . Yes - pure apostle of our western Lore , Spoke the full heart , that now may breathe it more , Still in those halls , where none without a sneer , Name the dear title of thy ghostly fear , Stand up , bold bishop - in ...
... thousand tomes . Yes - pure apostle of our western Lore , Spoke the full heart , that now may breathe it more , Still in those halls , where none without a sneer , Name the dear title of thy ghostly fear , Stand up , bold bishop - in ...
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... thousand years , and years on years sublime , So may we mete Eternity by Time ; A thousand cycles measured day by day , When Day itself shall long have burnt away : Age upon age , from this blest moment here , 48 ATHANASION .
... thousand years , and years on years sublime , So may we mete Eternity by Time ; A thousand cycles measured day by day , When Day itself shall long have burnt away : Age upon age , from this blest moment here , 48 ATHANASION .
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... thousand years , to convince the prisoners that the relief was not more desperate than the bondage . Would it not be better , however , to stay where St. Augustine left it ; than by another effort at consistency , to alter , what has ...
... thousand years , to convince the prisoners that the relief was not more desperate than the bondage . Would it not be better , however , to stay where St. Augustine left it ; than by another effort at consistency , to alter , what has ...
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Page 53 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 57 - Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
Page 61 - Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church, but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life: which sacrament is, by Christ's own appointment, to be continued in his Church until the end of the world.
Page 56 - And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
Page 54 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates ? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
Page 97 - tis thine to stand— entreating Christ to let thee in; At the gate of heaven beating, Wailing for thy sin. Nay, alas! thou foolish virgin, Hast thou then forgot, Jesus waited long to know thee, But he knows thee not!
Page 83 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
Page 61 - Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, to be a sign and seal of ingrafting into himself, of remission of sins by his blood, and regeneration by his Spirit...
Page 56 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 75 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.