| H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...grievoas than the pains of death; Reproach more piercing than the pointed sword. (Home's Douglas.) Servant of God, well done , well hast thou fought The better fight , who single has maintain'd, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms;... | |
| Thomas Jackson - Methodism - 1841 - 624 pages
...: two or three days after which, God signed his discharge, and called him up to his eternal home. ' Servant of God, well done ! Well hast thou fought The better fight ; who singly hast maintain'd, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of God, in word mightier than they in... | |
| Joel Hawes - Conduct of life - 1842 - 200 pages
...hear, from the throne ol 90 ESTABLISHED PRINCIPLES. judgment, the sentence of approval and peace. — Servant of God, well done ! well hast thou fought. The better fight — — for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, Though worlds judged thee perverse.... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...for the sake of his Great Master, he ever incurred reproach or loss, he is now abundantly rewarded. "Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought The better fight * * * * * for this was all thy care, To stand approv'd in sight of God." N. Jan. 31, at Mount Beacon,... | |
| Allen Steele - Episcopacy - 1843 - 276 pages
...To all such whether they can trace their ordination to Henry VIII or to John Wesley God will say " Servant of God, well done ; well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintained Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms, Against revolted multitudes the cause And... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...Before the seat supreme ; from whence a voice. From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard. " ' Uven'd by the distant Sun, That rears and ripens man, as well as plants, Here human maintaio'd Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And... | |
| 1866 - 580 pages
...man passed away to the possession of his reward. Well may we apply to him the lines of Milton, ' ' Servant of God ! well done ! well hast thou fought The better fight, and nobly hast maintained, Against conspiring multitudes, the cause Of Uod and Truth." (To be continued.)... | |
| John Waddington - Martyrs - 1844 - 82 pages
...prayer." The blind bard of nonconformity has furnished us with the noblest model of distinction : — " Servant of God, well done ! well hast thou fought The better fight, who singly hast maintained Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in... | |
| Thomas Arnold - Sermons - 1844 - 454 pages
...in a strain not surely uninspired by that " Eternal Spirit " whose aid he had sincerely sought — " Servant of God ! well done ! well hast thou fought The better fight, who singly hast maintained) Against revolted multitudes the cause Of Truth, in word mightier than they... | |
| Literature - 1845 - 670 pages
...sympathy, and as "he passed long way through hostile scorn," might hear in heart his voice of blessing, " Servant of God, well done ; well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintained Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth." The personal qualities of Arnold were eminently... | |
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