Meditations and Contemplations, Volume 1J. Rivingston, 1779 - Devotional literature |
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... Heart ; Difcord shall cease , Disease forget to smart : E'en Malice love , and Calumny commend ; Pride beg an Alms , and Av'rice turn a Friend . Centred in CHRIST , who fires the Soul within , The Flefh fhall know no Pain ; the Soul ...
... Heart ; Difcord shall cease , Disease forget to smart : E'en Malice love , and Calumny commend ; Pride beg an Alms , and Av'rice turn a Friend . Centred in CHRIST , who fires the Soul within , The Flefh fhall know no Pain ; the Soul ...
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... Heart refin'd , And taste , with 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 ...
... Heart refin'd , And taste , with 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 ...
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... Heart ; To trace the genial Source , we Nature call , And prove the GOD of Nature Friend of all ; HERVEY for this his mental Landscape drew , And sketch'd the whole Creation out to View , Th ' enamel'd Bloom , and variegated Flow'r ...
... Heart ; To trace the genial Source , we Nature call , And prove the GOD of Nature Friend of all ; HERVEY for this his mental Landscape drew , And sketch'd the whole Creation out to View , Th ' enamel'd Bloom , and variegated Flow'r ...
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... Disease obftructs the lab'ring Breath , When the Heart fickens , and each Pulfe is Death ; E'en then Religion fhall fuftain the Juft , Grace their laft Moments , nor defert their Duft . August 5 , 1748 . 0000000000000000000 A ...
... Disease obftructs the lab'ring Breath , When the Heart fickens , and each Pulfe is Death ; E'en then Religion fhall fuftain the Juft , Grace their laft Moments , nor defert their Duft . August 5 , 1748 . 0000000000000000000 A ...
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... Heart . Nature inform'd by Thee , new Paths has trod , And rifes , here , a Preacher for her GoD ; By Fancy's Aids mysterious Heights she tries , And lures us by our Senfes , to the Skies . To deck thy Stile collected Graces throng ...
... Heart . Nature inform'd by Thee , new Paths has trod , And rifes , here , a Preacher for her GoD ; By Fancy's Aids mysterious Heights she tries , And lures us by our Senfes , to the Skies . To deck thy Stile collected Graces throng ...
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