Devotions, by J. Donne. With two sermons. i. On the decease of lady Danvers. ii. Death's duel. To which is prefixed, his life, by I. Walton1840 |
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... Christ , and walk as ye have me for an example . " Not the example of a busy - body , but of a contemplative , a harmless , a humble , and a holy life and conversation . The love of that noble society was expressed to him many ways ...
... Christ , and walk as ye have me for an example . " Not the example of a busy - body , but of a contemplative , a harmless , a humble , and a holy life and conversation . The love of that noble society was expressed to him many ways ...
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... Christ , extended upon an anchor , like those which painters draw when they would present us with the picture of Christ crucified on the cross ; his varying no otherwise , than to affix him not to a cross , but to an anchor ( the emblem ...
... Christ , extended upon an anchor , like those which painters draw when they would present us with the picture of Christ crucified on the cross ; his varying no otherwise , than to affix him not to a cross , but to an anchor ( the emblem ...
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... CHRIST . A sheaf of snakes used heretofore to be my seal , which is the crest of our poor family . Qui priùs assuetus serpentum falce tabellas Signare , hæc nostræ symbola parva domûs Adscitus domui domini . Adopted in God's family ...
... CHRIST . A sheaf of snakes used heretofore to be my seal , which is the crest of our poor family . Qui priùs assuetus serpentum falce tabellas Signare , hæc nostræ symbola parva domûs Adscitus domui domini . Adopted in God's family ...
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... Christ here detain , When nail'd unto't , but he ascends again ; Nor yet thy eloquence here keep him still , But only whilst thou speak'st , this anchor will : Nor canst thou be content , unless thou to This certain anchor add a seal ...
... Christ here detain , When nail'd unto't , but he ascends again ; Nor yet thy eloquence here keep him still , But only whilst thou speak'st , this anchor will : Nor canst thou be content , unless thou to This certain anchor add a seal ...
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... Christ Jesus , and by the calling of the Church of Eng- land , Priest , being at this time in good health and perfect understanding ( praised be God therefore ) , do hereby make my last Will and Testament , in lxviii THE LIFE OF.
... Christ Jesus , and by the calling of the Church of Eng- land , Priest , being at this time in good health and perfect understanding ( praised be God therefore ) , do hereby make my last Will and Testament , in lxviii THE LIFE OF.
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Page 33 - The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger : But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
Page 54 - Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Page lxii - A Hymn to God the Father Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt Thou forgive that sin, through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page xli - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page 135 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 185 - And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels...
Page 102 - ... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee!
Page 121 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Page 165 - For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Page lxii - Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore...