Meditations and Contemplations

Bourne and Evans, 1810 - Devotional literature - 367 pages

MEDITATIONS AMONG THE TOMBS	1

The dignity of prayer and happiness of having God for	5

Monument of a youth grief of the parents mitigated or	10

This farther urged from the instance of a person killed by	17

A religious father taken from his young family his behaviour	24

Monument of a warrior slain in battle reflections on	37

Brightness of the stars encouragement to fidelity in the	42

The vault its awful aspect grandeur in abasement the	45

The setting sun	186

The day ended the swiftness the shortness of time the work	193

Universal cessation of business	199

Darkness renders the least spark visible yet steals from	205

Dreams their unaccountable oddness many peoples waking	211

The owl its gloomy disposition unholy persons incapable	220

A comet imagined to be the forerunner of judgments licen	232

Moon a most serviceable appendage to our globe	238

Subject of mortality brought home to our own case incite	51

Diversity of flowers in their airs habits attitudes and linea	53

The resurrection of the righteous their meeting the Judge	57

They ise though reluctant are distracted with terror	63

REFLECTIONS ON A FLOWER GARDEN	69

The graves of the aged the difficulties and hazard of a late	76

The various but harmonious procedure of Providence and grace	82

Passionflower its description with a religious improvement	132

Sensitive plant shrinks from every touch such should be	135

Instances of transitory continuance in the noblest flowers	141

The bees their ingenuity their industry set an example	147

CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE NIGHT	clxxv

Moon under an eclipse gazed at by multitudes the faults	244

Moon actuates the sea the everlasting joys of heaven attract	246

CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE STARRY HEAVENS	253

The sun its enormous size	260

The stupendous condescension of God in his gracious regards	267

The power of God manifested in the starry heavens this	273

The unwearied patience of this allmighty being 298	279

The purity of God faintly represented by the unspotted firma	292

What sustains the arch of heaven and supports the globes	301

Variety in the magnitude and splendour of the stars different	327

The scantiness of our knowledge with regard to the celestial	340

Title	Meditations and Contemplations
Author	James Hervey
Publisher	Bourne and Evans, 1810
Original from	National Library of Israel
Digitized	Sep 10, 2019
Length	367 pages

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