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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... Hence , fweetly pain'd , her cries to heav'n do flee ; " O none but Jefus , none but Chrift for me : " O glorious Christ , O beauty , beauty rare , Ten thoufand thousand heavens are not fo fair . • In him at once all beauties meet and ...
... Hence , fweetly pain'd , her cries to heav'n do flee ; " O none but Jefus , none but Chrift for me : " O glorious Christ , O beauty , beauty rare , Ten thoufand thousand heavens are not fo fair . • In him at once all beauties meet and ...
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... Hence flow the following evils more or less Preferring oft her partial holy drefs , Before her Hufband's perfect righteoufnefs . Hence joying more in grace already given Than in her Head and ftock that's all in heaven . Hence grieving ...
... Hence flow the following evils more or less Preferring oft her partial holy drefs , Before her Hufband's perfect righteoufnefs . Hence joying more in grace already given Than in her Head and ftock that's all in heaven . Hence grieving ...
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... hence the fray , Hell's powers ftill push the bride the legal way . So hot . the war , her life's a troubled flood , A field of battle , and a fcene of blood . But he that once commenc'd the work in her , Whose working fingers drop the ...
... hence the fray , Hell's powers ftill push the bride the legal way . So hot . the war , her life's a troubled flood , A field of battle , and a fcene of blood . But he that once commenc'd the work in her , Whose working fingers drop the ...
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... hence are but a fhew , True faith that's of a noble divine race , Is ftill a holy fanctifying grace : And greater honour to the law does fhare , Than boafters all that breathe the vital air . Ev'n heathen morals vaftly may outfhine The ...
... hence are but a fhew , True faith that's of a noble divine race , Is ftill a holy fanctifying grace : And greater honour to the law does fhare , Than boafters all that breathe the vital air . Ev'n heathen morals vaftly may outfhine The ...
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... Hence , fetching all her fuccours from abroad , She still employs this mighty pow'r of God . Drain'd clean of native pow'rs and legal aims , No ftrength but in and from Jehovah claims ; And thus her service to the law o'er tops The tow ...
... Hence , fetching all her fuccours from abroad , She still employs this mighty pow'r of God . Drain'd clean of native pow'rs and legal aims , No ftrength but in and from Jehovah claims ; And thus her service to the law o'er tops The tow ...
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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.