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... heavens ascends , And meets ten thousand there . As stars that seem but points of light , The rank of suns assume , First faint and small , then clear and bright , They gladden all the gloom . J. Montgomerv . REFLECTIONS . SHERLOCK ...
... heavens ascends , And meets ten thousand there . As stars that seem but points of light , The rank of suns assume , First faint and small , then clear and bright , They gladden all the gloom . J. Montgomerv . REFLECTIONS . SHERLOCK ...
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... heavens shine alike on both . - DAVID THOMAS . Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness ; but a faithful man who can find ? -Proverbs , xx . 16 . Fight the good fight of faith , lay hold on FAITH - ITS FREQUENT WEAKNESS . [ Jan. 9 .
... heavens shine alike on both . - DAVID THOMAS . Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness ; but a faithful man who can find ? -Proverbs , xx . 16 . Fight the good fight of faith , lay hold on FAITH - ITS FREQUENT WEAKNESS . [ Jan. 9 .
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... heavenly ray , Lights up a dying bed . REFLECTIONS . Bathurst . HE who looks no further than this world , and balances the accounts of his joys and sufferings from that consideration , finds all his sorrows enlarged , and at the close ...
... heavenly ray , Lights up a dying bed . REFLECTIONS . Bathurst . HE who looks no further than this world , and balances the accounts of his joys and sufferings from that consideration , finds all his sorrows enlarged , and at the close ...
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... heavenly faith , descry The Saviour's gracious form , Holding the helm and steering safe Through every earthly storm ! If we but make His love our own , Though all around us frown , When for a time we've born the cross We shall attain ...
... heavenly faith , descry The Saviour's gracious form , Holding the helm and steering safe Through every earthly storm ! If we but make His love our own , Though all around us frown , When for a time we've born the cross We shall attain ...
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... heavenly guest , Reign the full sovereign of my willing breast , A tinkling cymbal would my worth surpass , And all my boasting prove like sounding brass . Not soon provoked , o'er guilt and woe she grieves ; She suffers all things ...
... heavenly guest , Reign the full sovereign of my willing breast , A tinkling cymbal would my worth surpass , And all my boasting prove like sounding brass . Not soon provoked , o'er guilt and woe she grieves ; She suffers all things ...
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Page 29 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 16 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 25 - 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 26 - OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, — A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb...
Page 31 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...