The sacred sketch book; containing selections from eminent religious writers in Britain and America. By J.F. WinksJoseph Foulkes Winks 1847 |
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... cloud Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine , Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear , Yet dazzle heaven , that brightest seraphim Approach not , but with both wings veil their eyes . Thee next they sang of all creation ...
... cloud Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine , Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear , Yet dazzle heaven , that brightest seraphim Approach not , but with both wings veil their eyes . Thee next they sang of all creation ...
Page 137
... cloud ; for which you cannot have a word that can signify a verier nothing . Man is so vain , so unfixed , so perishing a creature , that he cannot long last in the scene of fancy : a man goes off , and is forgot- ten like the dream of ...
... cloud ; for which you cannot have a word that can signify a verier nothing . Man is so vain , so unfixed , so perishing a creature , that he cannot long last in the scene of fancy : a man goes off , and is forgot- ten like the dream of ...
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... clouds came nigh . And still she mocked , and danced , and taunting , spoke Her sportive blasphemies against the ... cloud , still burst the thicker blaze ; The earthquake heaved ! -Then sank the hideous din ! Yon wave of darkness o ...
... clouds came nigh . And still she mocked , and danced , and taunting , spoke Her sportive blasphemies against the ... cloud , still burst the thicker blaze ; The earthquake heaved ! -Then sank the hideous din ! Yon wave of darkness o ...
Contents
THE DIVINE BEING CREATION FALL OF MAN | 9 |
Goodness of God | 15 |
Power of Prayer | 16 |
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