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Page viii
... look at the hymns - many of them very pure , pious , and beautiful— which are used at this day in churches and chapels by persons of every shade of opinion . How often is the tone in which they speak of the natural world one of ...
... look at the hymns - many of them very pure , pious , and beautiful— which are used at this day in churches and chapels by persons of every shade of opinion . How often is the tone in which they speak of the natural world one of ...
Page xiii
... look at them as instances of laws of the natural world , which find their analogues in the laws of the spiritual world , the kingdom of God . I cannot conceive a man's writing that 104th Psalm who had not the most deep , the most ...
... look at them as instances of laws of the natural world , which find their analogues in the laws of the spiritual world , the kingdom of God . I cannot conceive a man's writing that 104th Psalm who had not the most deep , the most ...
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... look with calmness , and even with hope and goodwill , on these new theories ; for , correct or in- correct , they surely mark a tendency towards a more , not a less , Scriptural view of Nature . Are they not attempts , whether ...
... look with calmness , and even with hope and goodwill , on these new theories ; for , correct or in- correct , they surely mark a tendency towards a more , not a less , Scriptural view of Nature . Are they not attempts , whether ...
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... looks , —if I did not believe that , I say -- I should be inclined to confess with Homer of old , that man is the most miserable of all the beasts of the field . For consider but this one argument . It is no new one ; it has lain , I ...
... looks , —if I did not believe that , I say -- I should be inclined to confess with Homer of old , that man is the most miserable of all the beasts of the field . For consider but this one argument . It is no new one ; it has lain , I ...
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... look on it with Him . It may seem , at first , a painful sight . But shall it cast over our minds only gloom and darkness ? Or shall we not see on the Cross the full revelation of Light ; of the Light which lightens every man that comes ...
... look on it with Him . It may seem , at first , a painful sight . But shall it cast over our minds only gloom and darkness ? Or shall we not see on the Cross the full revelation of Light ; of the Light which lightens every man that comes ...
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Page xv - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Page 271 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20.
Page 262 - OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD : Lord, hear my voice. 0 let thine ears consider well : the voice of my complaint. If thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O Lord, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee : therefore shalt thou be feared.
Page x - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Page 131 - Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law ; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. 35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments ; for therein do I delight.
Page 282 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor...
Page 225 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 144 - Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Page 84 - Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven." And this word, "Yet once more," signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Page 242 - And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse ; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.