Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church (earlier "for Younger Members of the English Church"), Volume 7J. and C. Mozley, 1869 |
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... give me back The gladness of the old : The lips that once so warmly blessed , They now are dumb and cold ; The eyes that fondly beamed on me Are sleeping in the grave ; For all the love that once was mine , I vainly long and crave . New ...
... give me back The gladness of the old : The lips that once so warmly blessed , They now are dumb and cold ; The eyes that fondly beamed on me Are sleeping in the grave ; For all the love that once was mine , I vainly long and crave . New ...
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' Ready to give thanks , and live On the least that Heaven may give . ' Then comes the walk along the stony vale ... gives us the lesson of obedience in His subjection to His parents ; but there is another lesson drawn in the Lyra ...
' Ready to give thanks , and live On the least that Heaven may give . ' Then comes the walk along the stony vale ... gives us the lesson of obedience in His subjection to His parents ; but there is another lesson drawn in the Lyra ...
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... give it a zest . How unlike the feast of good things the Saviour offers ! Nor , indeed , is it needful to be less ... gives ' an angel friend ' to share the everlasting rest . ' Baptism changes the human sin - stained infant to an ...
... give it a zest . How unlike the feast of good things the Saviour offers ! Nor , indeed , is it needful to be less ... gives ' an angel friend ' to share the everlasting rest . ' Baptism changes the human sin - stained infant to an ...
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... give vitality to any part of the Old Testament revelation , I disclaim this as the true posture of our minds towards the Word of God . It is gratuitous ; it is unhistorical ; it is unphilosophic . Why the early dawn should be so unlike ...
... give vitality to any part of the Old Testament revelation , I disclaim this as the true posture of our minds towards the Word of God . It is gratuitous ; it is unhistorical ; it is unphilosophic . Why the early dawn should be so unlike ...
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... Give the King Thy judgments ' may have been a prayer for Solomon , and it may be a useful way of thinking and writing , to say that this Solomon was transfigured before the end of the Psalm , and that the One greater than Solomon rose ...
... Give the King Thy judgments ' may have been a prayer for Solomon , and it may be a useful way of thinking and writing , to say that this Solomon was transfigured before the end of the Psalm , and that the One greater than Solomon rose ...
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Page 303 - Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Page 287 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives ; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 259 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 405 - And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth their lots ; and the lot fell upon Matthias ; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Page 227 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 287 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; * but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 424 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 359 - Death is swallowed up in victory. 0 death, where is thy sting ? 0 grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 383 - Well I know thy trouble, 0 My servant true ; Thou art very weary, 1 was weary too ; But that toil shall make thee Some day all Mine own, And the end of sorrow Shall be near My throne.
Page 230 - 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.