Meditations and Contemplations, Volume 1J. Rivingston, 1779 - Devotional literature |
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... vaft Benevolence profufely spreads The yellow Harvests , and the verdant Meads . Thy Pupil , HERVEY , a Redeemer finds In boundless Oceans , and in viewless Winds : He reins at Will the furious Blaft , and guides The rending Tempefts ...
... vaft Benevolence profufely spreads The yellow Harvests , and the verdant Meads . Thy Pupil , HERVEY , a Redeemer finds In boundless Oceans , and in viewless Winds : He reins at Will the furious Blaft , and guides The rending Tempefts ...
Page 49
... vaft , as his Defires ? That , then , he would * fit down , and enjoy what he had ac- quired ; breathe a while from his toilfome Pur- fuit of Things temporal , and , perhaps , think a little of Things eternal . BUT fee the Folly of ...
... vaft , as his Defires ? That , then , he would * fit down , and enjoy what he had ac- quired ; breathe a while from his toilfome Pur- fuit of Things temporal , and , perhaps , think a little of Things eternal . BUT fee the Folly of ...
Page 74
... Wonders of this nether World . Thofe , who received vaft Revenues , and called whole Lordships their own ; are here reduced to Half a Dozen Feet of Earth , or confined in a few few Sheets of Lead . Rooms of State , and 74 MEDITATIONS.
... Wonders of this nether World . Thofe , who received vaft Revenues , and called whole Lordships their own ; are here reduced to Half a Dozen Feet of Earth , or confined in a few few Sheets of Lead . Rooms of State , and 74 MEDITATIONS.
Page 79
... vaft Spaces of the lonely Defart ; and penetrated the inmoft Receffes of the dreary Cavern : but never , never beheld Nature lour- ing , with fo tremendous a Form ; never felt fuch Impreffions of Awe , ftriking cold on my Heart ; as ...
... vaft Spaces of the lonely Defart ; and penetrated the inmoft Receffes of the dreary Cavern : but never , never beheld Nature lour- ing , with fo tremendous a Form ; never felt fuch Impreffions of Awe , ftriking cold on my Heart ; as ...
Page 100
... vaft , boundless , amazing Eternity , will only be beginning ! WHAT a pleafing , yet awful Thought is this ! Full of Delight , and full of Dread . O ! may it alarm our Fears ; quicken our Hopes ; and animate all our Endeavours ! Since ...
... vaft , boundless , amazing Eternity , will only be beginning ! WHAT a pleafing , yet awful Thought is this ! Full of Delight , and full of Dread . O ! may it alarm our Fears ; quicken our Hopes ; and animate all our Endeavours ! Since ...
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