Meditations and Contemplations ..., Volume 1J.F. and C. Rivington, 1779 - Devotional literature |
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... seems , also , to exhibit an emblematical Picture of Sophronia's Perfon and Accomplish- ments , Is her Beauty , or , what is more than Beauty , her white - rob'd Innocence , reprefented by the fnowy Colour ? The Surface , fmoothly ...
... seems , also , to exhibit an emblematical Picture of Sophronia's Perfon and Accomplish- ments , Is her Beauty , or , what is more than Beauty , her white - rob'd Innocence , reprefented by the fnowy Colour ? The Surface , fmoothly ...
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... seems to have been loft , for a while , in melancholy Contempla- tion ; fuddenly breaks out into this abrupt Encomium ; then melts into Tears , and can proceed no farther . Yet , in this Cafe , how eloquent is Silence ! While it hints ...
... seems to have been loft , for a while , in melancholy Contempla- tion ; fuddenly breaks out into this abrupt Encomium ; then melts into Tears , and can proceed no farther . Yet , in this Cafe , how eloquent is Silence ! While it hints ...
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... seems a dreary Wafte ; an undiftinguished Chaos . Till the re- turning Hours , have unbarred the Gates of Light , and let forth the Morn . - Then , what a Profpect opens ! The Heavens are paved with Azure , and ftrewed with Rofes . A ...
... seems a dreary Wafte ; an undiftinguished Chaos . Till the re- turning Hours , have unbarred the Gates of Light , and let forth the Morn . - Then , what a Profpect opens ! The Heavens are paved with Azure , and ftrewed with Rofes . A ...
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... seem to be thrown on with an easy 66 Dash , TIANITY the Great ORNAMENT of Human Life . If Chriftians happily avoid the dangerous Ex- " treme , and too often fatal Rock , of a dead fruitlefs " Faith on the one hand , He [ i . e . Satan ] ...
... seem to be thrown on with an easy 66 Dash , TIANITY the Great ORNAMENT of Human Life . If Chriftians happily avoid the dangerous Ex- " treme , and too often fatal Rock , of a dead fruitlefs " Faith on the one hand , He [ i . e . Satan ] ...
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... seems , nothing greater , than to be clad in an embroidered Vesture ; and to trail along the Ground , a Robe of the richest Dyes . This is , in her Imagination , the moft lordly Spoil , He can win ; the most stately Trophy , He can ...
... seems , nothing greater , than to be clad in an embroidered Vesture ; and to trail along the Ground , a Robe of the richest Dyes . This is , in her Imagination , the moft lordly Spoil , He can win ; the most stately Trophy , He can ...
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Page 94 - Regions of Sorrow, doleful Shades, where Peace And Reft can never dwell ; Hope never comes, That comes to All : but Torture without End Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconfum'd.
Page 253 - of this great Ordnance of the Heavens, is given us in Rev. xvi. 21. There fell upon Men a great Hail out of Heaven, every Stone about the Weight of a Talent,
Page 23 - how valu'd once, avails Thee not; To whom related, or by whom begot. A Heap of Duft alone remains of Thee : 'Tis all THOU art! —and all the PROUD
Page 182 - Conceptions of that SUPREME BEING, before whom all Nations are as a " Drop of a Bucket, " and are counted as the fmall Duft of the Balance.
Page 159 - cloathed me with the Garments of Salvation ; He hath covered me 'with the Robe of Righteoufnefs,
Page 57 - upon him : And his Example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at leaft feeming to do fo. In a Word, a brighter Courage, and a gentler Difpofition, were never married together, to make the moil chearful and innocent Converfation.
Page 199 - furnifh us with' Game, .*' or raife pleafing Ideas in us by the Delightfulnefs of «' their Appearance. Fountains, Lakes, and Rivers, are «' as refreshing to the Imagination, as to the Soil
Page 89 - In that dread Moment, how the frantic Soul Raves round the Walls of her Clay Tenement -, Runs to each Avenue; and
Page xxvi - noble, difinterefted, and (if I may be allowed the Term) generoufly devout. Repentance indicates our Nature fallen, and Prayer turns chiefly upon a Regard to one's felf. But the Exercifes of Gratitude fubfifted in Paradife, when there was no Fault to deplore; and will be perpetuated in Heaven, when
Page ii - Tis This, that gilds the Horrors of our Night. When Wealth forfakes us, and when Friends are few; When Friends are faithlefs, or when Foes purfue ; 'Tis This, that wards the Blow, or