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... Grace Abounding " -Realisation of the unseen - Bunyan and public affairs - Accusation of otherworldliness - Uncertainty of his re- ligious progress - Visions and locutions - Function of fear - A solitary - Macaulay on Bunyan - The Bible ...
... Grace Abounding " -Realisation of the unseen - Bunyan and public affairs - Accusation of otherworldliness - Uncertainty of his re- ligious progress - Visions and locutions - Function of fear - A solitary - Macaulay on Bunyan - The Bible ...
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... grace with gay effrontery , it does not often deal with the great lyric themes in a spirit of serious beauty ; it ceases to be in any large sense an interpretation of life . To us , looking back upon the period , the literature of ...
... grace with gay effrontery , it does not often deal with the great lyric themes in a spirit of serious beauty ; it ceases to be in any large sense an interpretation of life . To us , looking back upon the period , the literature of ...
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... grace ; so that the Gospel shall come upon them as a divine supplement to the sad and feeble moral life of nature . To the Evangelical , on the contrary , the soul that is not saved is lost . . So , again , the contrast turns up in the ...
... grace ; so that the Gospel shall come upon them as a divine supplement to the sad and feeble moral life of nature . To the Evangelical , on the contrary , the soul that is not saved is lost . . So , again , the contrast turns up in the ...
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... grace of faith , makes up the highest per- fection . " Religious ideas and religious emotions , under the influence of the Puritan habit of mind , seek to realise themselves not in art , but , without any intervening medium , in ...
... grace of faith , makes up the highest per- fection . " Religious ideas and religious emotions , under the influence of the Puritan habit of mind , seek to realise themselves not in art , but , without any intervening medium , in ...
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... grace , the effectual calling and final perseverance of the saints , the endless joy of heaven , the endless gnashing of teeth in hell— these were themes for passionate contemplation , sources of agony , sources of rapture . Undoubtedly ...
... grace , the effectual calling and final perseverance of the saints , the endless joy of heaven , the endless gnashing of teeth in hell— these were themes for passionate contemplation , sources of agony , sources of rapture . Undoubtedly ...
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Page 111 - I the unkind, ungrateful ? Ah my dear, I cannot look on thee. Love took my hand, and smiling did reply, Who made the eyes but I ? Truth, Lord, but I have marred them : let my shame Go where it doth deserve. And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame ? My dear, then I will serve.
Page 154 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 195 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 123 - But ah, my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And, when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.
Page 124 - I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.
Page 107 - In another walk to Salisbury, he saw a poor man with a poorer horse, that was fallen under his load; they were both in distress, and needed present help, which Mr. Herbert perceiving, put off his canonical coat, and helped the poor man to unload, and after, to load his horse: The poor man blessed him for it, and he blessed the poor man ; and was so like the good Samaritan, that he gave him money to...
Page 195 - Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite. If there be aught of presage in the mind, This day will be remarkable in my life By some great act, or of my days the last.
Page 128 - Temple," and aptly,' for in the Temple of God, under His wing, he led his life in St. Mary's Church, near St. Peter's college ; there he lodged under Tertullian's roof of angels ; there he made his nest more gladly than David's swallow near the house of God : where, like a primitive saint, he offered more prayers in the night than others usually offer in the day.
Page 71 - My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college; yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 298 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.