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
| Charles George Sommers - 1835 - 442 pages
...have beheld'him in the pulpit, the words of Cowper have always seemed to be peculiarly applicable. " There stands the messenger of truth! there stands The legate of the skies!—His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...powers,) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, 335 Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. There stands...credentials clear. By him, the violated law speaks out 340 Its thunders, and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace. He stablishes... | |
| Dorus Clarke - Sermons, English - 1836 - 228 pages
...truth ; — " The pulpit, I say 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.'' Regularly attend, then, my young friends, the public worship of God. Sanctify the Sabbath by resorting... | |
| Future life, A. G. M. - Future punishment - 1878 - 256 pages
...bring thee into judgment ! " " 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." In conclusion, let me say to my ministerial brethren, Preach Christ. Let Him ever be the grand theme... | |
| William Cowper - Bookbinding - 1878 - 286 pages
...thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deform'd With dripping rains, or wit.her'd by a frost. 59 The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause. 63 All catch the frenzy, downward from her grace, Whose flambeaux flash against the morning skies,... | |
| James Jackson Wray - 1879 - 404 pages
...FROM AN UNSEEN FRIEND. " I say 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 Christian beam Illuminates my faith, and bids me trust All that may happen to the will of heaven."... | |
| Preaching - 1879 - 110 pages
...WITNESSES. The Pulpit, in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar pow'rs. Must stand acknowledg'd, while the world shall stand. The most important and...effectual guard. Support, and ornament of Virtue's cauBe. COWPEB. CINCINNATI: HITCHCOCK AND WALDEN. NEW YORK: PHILLIPS AND HUNT. 1879. COPTBIOHT, 1879,... | |
| John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...the pulpit contains some notable lines. A number may be presented. " The pulpit," he says — Must stand acknowledged while the world shall stand, The...divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. The poet cries out against the teacher of mechanical religion as he believed all seminary-theology... | |
| 1880 - 882 pages
...pulpit in its dignity and its defection. Cowper'e estimate of the pulpit seems to be very high : " The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause;" bat the history of the pulpit may almost be described »s the history of the most important achievements... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1881 - 562 pages
...made no proselyte) — I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The...The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His ofhce sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him,... | |
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