The Oxford Book of Christian VerseDavid Cecil Lord David Cecil, well known for his writings, and particularly for his brilliant lives of the poet Cowper and of the young Lord Melbourne, has set out in this anthology to make a full and representative collection of English religious verse. |
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Page xxiv
... faith , on original sin , redemption by Christ's blood , final perdi- tion , represents a violent reaction against the cool , unenthusiastic common sense of orthodox eighteenth - century ... faith rather than faith itself xxiv INTRODUCTION.
... faith , on original sin , redemption by Christ's blood , final perdi- tion , represents a violent reaction against the cool , unenthusiastic common sense of orthodox eighteenth - century ... faith rather than faith itself xxiv INTRODUCTION.
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David Cecil. pressing an agonized longing for faith rather than faith itself . The next century at first saw no great change of convention . The Oxford Movement did not create a new literary manner to express its new religious attitude ...
David Cecil. pressing an agonized longing for faith rather than faith itself . The next century at first saw no great change of convention . The Oxford Movement did not create a new literary manner to express its new religious attitude ...
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... faith , and faith alone , embrace , Believing where we cannot prove ; Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo , thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made . Thou wilt ...
... faith , and faith alone , embrace , Believing where we cannot prove ; Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo , thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made . Thou wilt ...
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Richard Rolle of Hampole 1290 ?1349 | 1 |
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