Gospel Sonnets: Or, Spiritual Songs. In Six Parts ... Concerning Creation and Redemption, Law and Gospel, Justification and Sanctification, Faith and Sense, Heaven and Earth |
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... command a thought , The total fum of what he can is nought . Gen. iii , 1-6 . He's able only now t ' increase his thrall ; 30 PART I. GOSPEL SONNETS . remedy provided in Chrift; and a particular account man's being naturally wedded to ...
... command a thought , The total fum of what he can is nought . Gen. iii , 1-6 . He's able only now t ' increase his thrall ; 30 PART I. GOSPEL SONNETS . remedy provided in Chrift; and a particular account man's being naturally wedded to ...
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... command with her ftiff confcience meet ; To dash her pride , and fhew her utmost need , Purfues for double debt with awful dread . ↑ Jer . xviii . 12 . He makes her former husband's frightly ghoft Appear and damn 40 PART I GOSPEL SONNETS .
... command with her ftiff confcience meet ; To dash her pride , and fhew her utmost need , Purfues for double debt with awful dread . ↑ Jer . xviii . 12 . He makes her former husband's frightly ghoft Appear and damn 40 PART I GOSPEL SONNETS .
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... command with fire and flame , And to the loweft pit of ruin damn . Thus doth it , by commiffion from above , Deal with the bride , when Heav'n would court her love . Lo ! now the ftartles at the Sinai trump , Which throws her foul into ...
... command with fire and flame , And to the loweft pit of ruin damn . Thus doth it , by commiffion from above , Deal with the bride , when Heav'n would court her love . Lo ! now the ftartles at the Sinai trump , Which throws her foul into ...
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... command A figh to eafe it , or a gracious thought , Though heaven could at this petty rate be bought ; When darkness and confufion overcloud , And unto black despair temptations crowd ; When wholly without ftrength to move or ftir , And ...
... command A figh to eafe it , or a gracious thought , Though heaven could at this petty rate be bought ; When darkness and confufion overcloud , And unto black despair temptations crowd ; When wholly without ftrength to move or ftir , And ...
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... commands an eafy yoke . No galling precepts on her neck he lays , Nor any debt demands , fave what he pays By promis'd aid ; but , lo ! the grievous law , Demanding brick , won't aid her with a straw . Hence alfo fretful , grudging ...
... commands an eafy yoke . No galling precepts on her neck he lays , Nor any debt demands , fave what he pays By promis'd aid ; but , lo ! the grievous law , Demanding brick , won't aid her with a straw . Hence alfo fretful , grudging ...
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Page 159 - This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Page 276 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 178 - But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach...
Page 202 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Page 172 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 172 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how...
Page 201 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that, for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 147 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 274 - 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...
Page 279 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.