Rain upon the mown grass, and other sermons, 1842-18701871 |
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... divine design is therefore a scheme of divine paternal love . And seeing that love in its ordinary forms cannot reach objects when they sink below their normal state , the love which planned the Chris- tian system is that variety of ...
... divine design is therefore a scheme of divine paternal love . And seeing that love in its ordinary forms cannot reach objects when they sink below their normal state , the love which planned the Chris- tian system is that variety of ...
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... divine grace . All love can devise and design , but this form of love is most skilful and fertile in invention . The genius of the imagination can write poetry , but the expressions of grace are the sweetest , deepest , divinest poetry ...
... divine grace . All love can devise and design , but this form of love is most skilful and fertile in invention . The genius of the imagination can write poetry , but the expressions of grace are the sweetest , deepest , divinest poetry ...
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... divine shapes which have been wrought from patrician marble . But what can fill the gulf , or even bridge the gulf , which separated the noble from the slave ? Only one thing could do it , that which actually effected it , this genial ...
... divine shapes which have been wrought from patrician marble . But what can fill the gulf , or even bridge the gulf , which separated the noble from the slave ? Only one thing could do it , that which actually effected it , this genial ...
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... divine object - lessons with a humble , lowly , and teachable spirit . If the works of man interest us , as seen in the arts useful and fine , and as seen in manufactures and agriculture , the works of God are greater , incomparably ...
... divine object - lessons with a humble , lowly , and teachable spirit . If the works of man interest us , as seen in the arts useful and fine , and as seen in manufactures and agriculture , the works of God are greater , incomparably ...
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... divine purpose . There is not in God the caprice which would change the established order without a reason , nor that restlessness which would search for or invent a reason , nor that impatience which would arrest the slow working ...
... divine purpose . There is not in God the caprice which would change the established order without a reason , nor that restlessness which would search for or invent a reason , nor that impatience which would arrest the slow working ...
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Page 329 - And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised ; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised...
Page 388 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 366 - But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ...
Page 371 - O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord : say unto him, "Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Page 32 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuons eye, 'And smiling say —
Page viii - And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
Page 332 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people...
Page 280 - Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me; bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Page 366 - I more: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 329 - Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all...