Meditations and Contemplations, Volume 1J. Rivingston, 1779 - Devotional literature |
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... Blifs the Beauties of thy Mind ; Collecting clearly , thro ' thy facred Plan , What Reverence of GOD ! what Love to Man ! -O ! when at last our deathlefs Forms fhall rise , And Flow'rs and Stars defift to moralize ; Shall then my Soul ...
... Blifs the Beauties of thy Mind ; Collecting clearly , thro ' thy facred Plan , What Reverence of GOD ! what Love to Man ! -O ! when at last our deathlefs Forms fhall rise , And Flow'rs and Stars defift to moralize ; Shall then my Soul ...
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... Blifs or Mifery unchangeable ; Obfervation on Eternity , 97 -The Wicked ; the Anguifh of their laft Sickness . No Hope but from the Religion they defpifed ; that very precarious ; the Horror of their Diffolution ; this the Beginning of ...
... Blifs or Mifery unchangeable ; Obfervation on Eternity , 97 -The Wicked ; the Anguifh of their laft Sickness . No Hope but from the Religion they defpifed ; that very precarious ; the Horror of their Diffolution ; this the Beginning of ...
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... Blifs , he was even then tottering upon the Brink of both . - Dreadful Viciffitude ! to have the bridal * Festivity turn- ed into the funeral Solemnity ! Deplorable Mif- fortune ! C 4 * A Diftrefs of this Kind is painted in very ...
... Blifs , he was even then tottering upon the Brink of both . - Dreadful Viciffitude ! to have the bridal * Festivity turn- ed into the funeral Solemnity ! Deplorable Mif- fortune ! C 4 * A Diftrefs of this Kind is painted in very ...
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... Blifs ! Teach thy Soul to afpire after a fure and immutable Felicity ! For the once gay and gallant Fidelio fleeps in other Embraces ; even in the icy Arms of Death ! Forgetful , eternally forgetful , of the World- and thee . · HITHERTO ...
... Blifs ! Teach thy Soul to afpire after a fure and immutable Felicity ! For the once gay and gallant Fidelio fleeps in other Embraces ; even in the icy Arms of Death ! Forgetful , eternally forgetful , of the World- and thee . · HITHERTO ...
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... Blifs , but a hopeful Progeny , rifing around them.— That they might fee Themselves , multiplied in their Little ones ; fee their mingled Graces , transfufed into their Offspring ; and feel the Glow of their Affection augmented , by ...
... Blifs , but a hopeful Progeny , rifing around them.— That they might fee Themselves , multiplied in their Little ones ; fee their mingled Graces , transfufed into their Offspring ; and feel the Glow of their Affection augmented , by ...
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