Christian ethics and wise sayings, by a presbyter of the Church of EnglandJ. Nisbet & Company, 1883 - 277 pages |
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... God . Calling to mind the learning of the ancient fathers we might think they did nothing but read ; seeing their works that they did nothing but write ; considering their devotion that they did nothing but pray . A Lord Chancellor ...
... God . Calling to mind the learning of the ancient fathers we might think they did nothing but read ; seeing their works that they did nothing but write ; considering their devotion that they did nothing but pray . A Lord Chancellor ...
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... God counsels me , in this day of my adversity . Wherefore hath this distress come upon me ? Why does God contend with me ? Why does He thus deal with me ? for He is the Author of this adversity whoever is the instrument . God's design ...
... God counsels me , in this day of my adversity . Wherefore hath this distress come upon me ? Why does God contend with me ? Why does He thus deal with me ? for He is the Author of this adversity whoever is the instrument . God's design ...
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... God's most effectual means to keep us from losing our way to our heavenly rest . Without this hedge of thorns on the right and left we should hardly keep the way to heaven . When God makes the world too hot for His people to hold they ...
... God's most effectual means to keep us from losing our way to our heavenly rest . Without this hedge of thorns on the right and left we should hardly keep the way to heaven . When God makes the world too hot for His people to hold they ...
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... God is of use to enforce the Word , so the Word of God is of use to explain the rod , that the voice of both together may be heard and answered . God uses not the rod where he means to use the sword . No affliction for the time seems ...
... God is of use to enforce the Word , so the Word of God is of use to explain the rod , that the voice of both together may be heard and answered . God uses not the rod where he means to use the sword . No affliction for the time seems ...
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... God David maintained a meek and calm spirit . St. Chrysostom says : " Art thou prone to anger ? Be so against thine own sins : Chastise thy soul , scourge thy conscience , be a severe judge and merciless in thy sentence against thine ...
... God David maintained a meek and calm spirit . St. Chrysostom says : " Art thou prone to anger ? Be so against thine own sins : Chastise thy soul , scourge thy conscience , be a severe judge and merciless in thy sentence against thine ...
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Page 190 - There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace.
Page 234 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 111 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend.
Page 142 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 49 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking.
Page 147 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 269 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 43 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 144 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Page 98 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.