Memoirs of Rev. Joseph Buckminster, D.D.,: And of His Son, Rev. Joseph Stevens BuckminsterTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 492 pages |
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Page 51 - icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand, .From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 426 - among whom we all had our conversation in times past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others.
Page 158 - See thou do it not! 1 am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God!" ' Whatever distinctions there may be among mankind, however indebted we may be to an earthly benefactor,
Page 159 - human character to be his servant and disciple. This I shall do by calling your attention to that sublime demand of the royal poet: — '" Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory ? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle."
Page 483 - As hallows and makes pure all gentle hearts. His hope is treacherous only whose love dies With beauty, which is varying every hour ; But in chaste hearts, uninfluenced by the power Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, That breathes on earth the air of Paradise.
Page 343 - The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Page 431 - Effectual calling is a work of God's spirit, whereby convincing us of our sin and misery, and enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the Gospel.
Page 385 - been an elm without his vine, And her bright dower of clustering charities, That round his trunk and branches might have clung Enriching and adorning. Unto thee, Not so enriched, not so adorned, to thee Was given a sister, In whom thy reason and intelligent heart Found — for all interests, hopes, and tender cares, All softening, humanizing, hallowing
Page 220 - The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him were opening paradise.
Page 427 - the sons of God, even to them who believe in his name, who are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. We must