Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with Notices Biographical and Critical, Volume 2J. Nesbet, 1857 - Christian literature, English |
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... Christ's Advent to Judgment , The House of Feasting , Rules for Employing Time , 289 • 299 303 Helps to Matrimonial Happiness , 310 314 A Plea for Toleration , 322 Abraham and the Fire - Worshipper , 327 Friendship , 327 • Prayer ...
... Christ's Advent to Judgment , The House of Feasting , Rules for Employing Time , 289 • 299 303 Helps to Matrimonial Happiness , 310 314 A Plea for Toleration , 322 Abraham and the Fire - Worshipper , 327 Friendship , 327 • Prayer ...
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... Christ Church in 1651 , and in the following year Vice - Chancellor of Oxford . It was a striking incident to find himself thus brought back to scenes which , fourteen years before , he had quitted amidst contempt and poverty , and a ...
... Christ Church in 1651 , and in the following year Vice - Chancellor of Oxford . It was a striking incident to find himself thus brought back to scenes which , fourteen years before , he had quitted amidst contempt and poverty , and a ...
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... Christ Church finds no place for the greatest of its Deans . * * In his notice of Henry Stubb , the second keeper of the Bodleian , who took his degree in the days of Owen , Anthony à Wood , a very unexception- able witness , records ...
... Christ Church finds no place for the greatest of its Deans . * * In his notice of Henry Stubb , the second keeper of the Bodleian , who took his degree in the days of Owen , Anthony à Wood , a very unexception- able witness , records ...
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... Christ the great Representative of God , " and are startled by its foreshadowings of the sermons and the spiritual history of a remarkably honest and vigorous thinker , who , from doubting the doctrine of the Trinity , was led to ...
... Christ the great Representative of God , " and are startled by its foreshadowings of the sermons and the spiritual history of a remarkably honest and vigorous thinker , who , from doubting the doctrine of the Trinity , was led to ...
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... Christ come in that order , with that reverence unto the reading or hearing the Word of God ( the Scripture itself I mean ) which is required , and he will find no place so dark or difficult but that it will yield him that refreshment ...
... Christ come in that order , with that reverence unto the reading or hearing the Word of God ( the Scripture itself I mean ) which is required , and he will find no place so dark or difficult but that it will yield him that refreshment ...
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Page 64 - On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 55 - And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded that her maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 54 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 162 - He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man : the field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
Page 57 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow ; And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 60 - In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste...
Page 47 - That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I, in my proportion, with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that, but content with these British islands as my world...
Page 62 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 51 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 64 - 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.