The claims of the gospel on the young1847 |
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... enjoy- ments that are derived from a higher class of sensations than those just dwelt upon ; sen- sations that are blended with the emotions of taste and the social feelings . Such are the sense of hearing and its gratification in music ...
... enjoy- ments that are derived from a higher class of sensations than those just dwelt upon ; sen- sations that are blended with the emotions of taste and the social feelings . Such are the sense of hearing and its gratification in music ...
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... fictitious writings ; or that he will enjoy a more intense delight in a familiar acquaint- ance with our purest and loftiest poetry , than he could possibly derive from gloating over the licentious 64 THE CLAIMS OF THE GOSPEL.
... fictitious writings ; or that he will enjoy a more intense delight in a familiar acquaint- ance with our purest and loftiest poetry , than he could possibly derive from gloating over the licentious 64 THE CLAIMS OF THE GOSPEL.
Page 68
... enjoy the pro- tection thus secured , as well as become prepared to let your long white robes flow down , without danger of defilement , in the New Jerusalem , because there no unclean thing can enter . Closely connected with these ...
... enjoy the pro- tection thus secured , as well as become prepared to let your long white robes flow down , without danger of defilement , in the New Jerusalem , because there no unclean thing can enter . Closely connected with these ...
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... enjoy the most ample provision for your earthly wants , you may be , you must be bereaved of dear friends . A venerated father , a fond mother , an almost adored companion , may be snatched away by the hand of death . Nothing of a ...
... enjoy the most ample provision for your earthly wants , you may be , you must be bereaved of dear friends . A venerated father , a fond mother , an almost adored companion , may be snatched away by the hand of death . Nothing of a ...
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... enjoys as much , to say the least , as the worldly man . sual enjoyments are as great . His pleasures , though modified in their character , are not diminished in amount . The happiness de- rived from the intellect and the imagination ...
... enjoys as much , to say the least , as the worldly man . sual enjoyments are as great . His pleasures , though modified in their character , are not diminished in amount . The happiness de- rived from the intellect and the imagination ...
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Page 58 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 82 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 130 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way : and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
Page 44 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? for ye are the temple of the living God ; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 116 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 4 - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses ; neither after him 26 arose there any like him.
Page 22 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 29 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 1 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 83 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...