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... strength , they be fourscore years , yet is their strength labour and sorrow , for it is soon cut off , and we fly away . - PSALM XC . 10 . S THE NEW YEAR . OON another year is gone ; Quickly have the seasons passed ; This we enter now ...
... strength , they be fourscore years , yet is their strength labour and sorrow , for it is soon cut off , and we fly away . - PSALM XC . 10 . S THE NEW YEAR . OON another year is gone ; Quickly have the seasons passed ; This we enter now ...
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... strength of manhood . The evening is an emblem of autumn , and autumn of declining life . The night with its silence and darkness shows the winter , in which all the powers of vegetation are benumbed ; and the winter points out the time ...
... strength of manhood . The evening is an emblem of autumn , and autumn of declining life . The night with its silence and darkness shows the winter , in which all the powers of vegetation are benumbed ; and the winter points out the time ...
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... strength to strength , to consider that she is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue , and know- ledge to knowledge , carries in it something ...
... strength to strength , to consider that she is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue , and know- ledge to knowledge , carries in it something ...
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... strength is wasted , there yet remains one effort to be made ; that reforma- tion is never hopeless , nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return , after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength ...
... strength is wasted , there yet remains one effort to be made ; that reforma- tion is never hopeless , nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return , after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength ...
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... strength which grace shall give , Die to self - in Christ to live . Faith in God , if such be thine , Shall be found thy safest sign , And obedience to His will Prove the best of tokens still . REFLECTIONS . OUR best endeavours are ...
... strength which grace shall give , Die to self - in Christ to live . Faith in God , if such be thine , Shall be found thy safest sign , And obedience to His will Prove the best of tokens still . REFLECTIONS . OUR best endeavours are ...
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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...