Meditations and Contemplations, Volume 1J. Rivingston, 1779 - Devotional literature |
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Page ix
... 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 , no Sin : E'en in the Terrors of expiring Breath , We bless the ...
... 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 , no Sin : E'en in the Terrors of expiring Breath , We bless the ...
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... Love to Man ! -O ! when at last our deathlefs Forms fhall rise , And Flow'rs and Stars defift to moralize ; Shall then my Soul by thine inform'd , furvey , And bear , the Splendors of effential Day ? But while my Thoughts indulge the ...
... Love to Man ! -O ! when at last our deathlefs Forms fhall rise , And Flow'rs and Stars defift to moralize ; Shall then my Soul by thine inform'd , furvey , And bear , the Splendors of effential Day ? But while my Thoughts indulge the ...
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... their Charms appear , Patience , rais'd Hope , firm Faith , and Love fincere ; Like a big Conftellation , bright they glow , And beam out lovelier by thy Night of Woe . Known Known were thy Merits to the Public long , Ere [ xiii ]
... their Charms appear , Patience , rais'd Hope , firm Faith , and Love fincere ; Like a big Conftellation , bright they glow , And beam out lovelier by thy Night of Woe . Known Known were thy Merits to the Public long , Ere [ xiii ]
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... Love gives me Merit , where my Genius fails . On it's ftrong Bafe my finall Desert I raise , Averse to Flatt'ry , as unskill'd to praise . Mile - End Green , Feb. 23 , 1749 . MOSES BROWNE . THENCE flow thefe folemn Sounds ? this raptur ...
... Love gives me Merit , where my Genius fails . On it's ftrong Bafe my finall Desert I raise , Averse to Flatt'ry , as unskill'd to praise . Mile - End Green , Feb. 23 , 1749 . MOSES BROWNE . THENCE flow thefe folemn Sounds ? this raptur ...
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... Pole : While Tombs , and Flow'rs , and Shades , and Stars , Unveil their facred Characters Of Justice , Wifdom , Pow'r , and Love ; And lifts the Soul to Realms above , Where Where dwells the God , in Glory crown'd , Who [ xvi ]
... Pole : While Tombs , and Flow'rs , and Shades , and Stars , Unveil their facred Characters Of Justice , Wifdom , Pow'r , and Love ; And lifts the Soul to Realms above , Where Where dwells the God , in Glory crown'd , Who [ xvi ]
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