The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 20

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C. & J. Rivington, and J. Mawman, 1836

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Page 39 - LM Awake, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake oft' dull sloth, and early rise To pay thy morning sacrifice. Redeem thy misspent moments past, And live this day as if thy last; Thy talents to improve take care ; For the great day thyself prepare.
Page 40 - which I this day have done; That with the world, myself and thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may With joy behold the judgment-day.
Page 26 - and as touching the dead that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, ' I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Page 119 - promises of God have their stability in him ; being ' in him yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us ;' his threatenings are executed by Christ upon ' them that know not God ;' while ' to them that are in Christ Jesus' they bring ' no condemnation.
Page 132 - They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah, my brother! or, Ah, sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah, Lord ! or, Ah, his glory ! He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of
Page 371 - (the Church) ought not to decree any thing against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of salvation." The Church must not enforce beyond Scripture; it may decree, ie pronounce, beyond it, but not against
Page 133 - the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."t
Page 42 - The holy gospel we profess Is truth and mercy, peace and love ; Such, let our hearts and lives express; Such, let our conversation prove. Whene'er the angry passions rise, And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife, To Jesus let us lift our eyes, Bright pattern of the christian life. Dispensing good where'er he came, The
Page 41 - c. M. Beneath our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning given; Beneath us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven. Their names are graven on the stone, Their bones are in the clay; And ere another day is gone, Ourselves may be as they.
Page 445 - among the heathen, and despised among men. Thy terribleness hath deceived thee and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that boldest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. Also Edom

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