 Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred,...  Poems - Page 42by William Cowper - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Horace Smith - 1833 - 332 pages
...meanly ambitious Lady Middleton nothing but bitter disappointment and pitiable degradation. CHAPTER IV. There stands the messenger of truth ; there stands...divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear, by him in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace. COWPER. GALE MIDDLETON, on the morning... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1833 - 958 pages
...meanly ambitious Lady Middleton nothing but bitter disappointment and pitiable degradation. CHAPTER IV. There stands the messenger of truth ; there stands...divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear, by him in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace. COWPER. GALE MIDDLETON, on the morning... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1833 - 334 pages
...there stands The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear, by him in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace. COWPER. GALE MIDDLETON, on the morning after his arrival at Brookshaw, was awakened at an early hour... | |
 | 1834 - 1012 pages
...OF THE IRISH PULPIT. " I pay the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The...effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause." — COWPEB. IN these times, as usually happens in intervals of peace, attention has been much turned... | |
 | John Codman - Sermons - 1834 - 456 pages
...To the services of the pulpit. "The PULPIT, in the sober use Of its legitimate peculiar powers, Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The...effectual guard, Support and ornament of virtue's cause." But how often is that consecrated place polluted with the bitter spirit of theological controversy... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...augmenting of that hallowed "Power" which the pulpit must possess, in order that it may ever - ncknowlpHged stand The most important and effectual guard. Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. On first opening the book, our eye chanced to light on a beautiful and well-deserved tribute to the... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...thing,) I say the Pulpit— in the sober use . '.'.•(•>• Of its legitimate, peculiar powers, Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The...divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. Its thunders ; ahd by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace. -H<1 He 'stablishes... | |
 | Chandler Robbins Gilman - Indiana - 1835 - 296 pages
...are not less unwilling to hear lectures on matters spiritual. CHAPTER VI. THE HEIRESS OF BRANDSBF. "There stands the messenger of truth, there stands...credentials clear; By him the violated law speaks out; Its thuaders, and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace." , . COWPER. WHEN... | |
 | 1840 - 974 pages
...to every friend of mankind: " The pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The...effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause." The seriousness and sacredness of the clerical function tend to give weight and influence to the subject... | |
 | John Mitchell - Congregational churches - 1835 - 266 pages
...pulpit pre-eminently : I say the pulpit, in the sober use, Of its legitimate, peculiar powers, Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The...most important, and effectual, guard, Support, and ornaraeut, of virtue's cause. To the Sabbath then, should our thoughts, our prayers, our hopes, habitually... | |
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