Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with Notices Biographical and Critical, Volume 2Robert Carter and Bros., 1859 - Christian literature, English |
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... thought of uncommon vigour or grandeur . Like candidates for the modern ministry , in his youth Owen had learned to write Latin , Greek , and Hebrew ; but then , as now , English had no place in the academic curriculum . And had he been ...
... thought of uncommon vigour or grandeur . Like candidates for the modern ministry , in his youth Owen had learned to write Latin , Greek , and Hebrew ; but then , as now , English had no place in the academic curriculum . And had he been ...
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... thoughts ; and the cause of truth would have gained had the better divine been at least an equal orator . However , there are " masters in Israel " whose style has been remarkably meagre ; and perhaps " Edwards on the Will " and ...
... thoughts ; and the cause of truth would have gained had the better divine been at least an equal orator . However , there are " masters in Israel " whose style has been remarkably meagre ; and perhaps " Edwards on the Will " and ...
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... thoughts of others , repinings , lie at the very door of their natures , and they can scarce step out but they are in the snare of one or other of them . Others are passionate and the like . Now , he that would watch that he enter not ...
... thoughts of others , repinings , lie at the very door of their natures , and they can scarce step out but they are in the snare of one or other of them . Others are passionate and the like . Now , he that would watch that he enter not ...
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... ; fill the heart with thoughts of the beauty of holiness , as it is designed by Christ for the end , issue , and effect of His death , -and thou wilt , in TAKE WARNING FROM THE FALLEN . 29 an ordinary course 28 JOHN OWEN .
... ; fill the heart with thoughts of the beauty of holiness , as it is designed by Christ for the end , issue , and effect of His death , -and thou wilt , in TAKE WARNING FROM THE FALLEN . 29 an ordinary course 28 JOHN OWEN .
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... thoughts , and what the heart of Christ , when He sees a temptation hastening towards us , a storm arising about us , and we are fast asleep ? Doth it not grieve Him to see us expose ourselves so to danger , after He hath given us ...
... thoughts , and what the heart of Christ , when He sees a temptation hastening towards us , a storm arising about us , and we are fast asleep ? Doth it not grieve Him to see us expose ourselves so to danger , after He hath given us ...
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Page 64 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou sun of this great world, both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Page 143 - He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide.
Page 64 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! Thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 250 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 54 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 56 - But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 51 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 162 - He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man : the field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
Page 59 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 167 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.