The Whole Works of the Rev. James Hervey: In Six Volumes, Volume 1Thomas Tegg, 1825 - Devotional literature |
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... light afflictions are but for a moment , and then comes an eternal weight of glory ! -Oh ! welcome , welcome death ! Thou mayest well be reckoned among the treasures of the Christian . To live is Christ , but to die is gain . " After ...
... light afflictions are but for a moment , and then comes an eternal weight of glory ! -Oh ! welcome , welcome death ! Thou mayest well be reckoned among the treasures of the Christian . To live is Christ , but to die is gain . " After ...
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... light that passed through the win- dows seemed to shed a kind of luminous obscurity , which gave every object a grave and venerable air . The deep silence , added to the gloomy aspect , and both heightened by the loneliness of the place ...
... light that passed through the win- dows seemed to shed a kind of luminous obscurity , which gave every object a grave and venerable air . The deep silence , added to the gloomy aspect , and both heightened by the loneliness of the place ...
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... light , and then withdrew into the more inviting regions of un- disturbed repose ? Happy voyager ! no sooner launched , than arriv- ed at the haven . But more eminently happy they , who have passed the waves , and weathered all the ...
... light , and then withdrew into the more inviting regions of un- disturbed repose ? Happy voyager ! no sooner launched , than arriv- ed at the haven . But more eminently happy they , who have passed the waves , and weathered all the ...
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... light ; but she that bare him breathes her last . She gives life , but gives it ( O pi- tiable consideration ! ) at the expense of her own ; and becomes at once a mother and a corpse . Or else , perhaps , she expires in severe pangs ...
... light ; but she that bare him breathes her last . She gives life , but gives it ( O pi- tiable consideration ! ) at the expense of her own ; and becomes at once a mother and a corpse . Or else , perhaps , she expires in severe pangs ...
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... light- ing down of the grasshopper is a burden on the bend- ing shoulders , and desire itself fails in the listless lethargic soul ; before those heavy hours come , and those tiresome moments draw nigh , in which there is too much ...
... light- ing down of the grasshopper is a burden on the bend- ing shoulders , and desire itself fails in the listless lethargic soul ; before those heavy hours come , and those tiresome moments draw nigh , in which there is too much ...
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Page 363 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 134 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 250 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Page 154 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 51 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 208 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 44 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Page 241 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 62 - JEHOVAH'S kingdom, and conjointly with the soul, made " his jewels ;" made " his peculiar pleasure ;" made to shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever'?
Page 236 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,