The Whole Works of the Rev. James Hervey: In Six Volumes, Volumen1Thomas Tegg, 1825 |
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... render the clergy so justly contemptible to the worldlings . No wonder the service of our Church , grieved I am to say it , is become such a formal lifeless thing , since it is , alas ! too generally executed by persons dead to ...
... render the clergy so justly contemptible to the worldlings . No wonder the service of our Church , grieved I am to say it , is become such a formal lifeless thing , since it is , alas ! too generally executed by persons dead to ...
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... rendered him , for several months before his death , incapable of speak- ing to his congregation as usual , he shortened his discourses , and took a most useful method of incul- cating his instructions ; for , after he had expounded his ...
... rendered him , for several months before his death , incapable of speak- ing to his congregation as usual , he shortened his discourses , and took a most useful method of incul- cating his instructions ; for , after he had expounded his ...
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... rendered him invulnerable . When he was misrepre- sented and calumniated , he would say , " Our enemies are sometimes our best friends , and tell us truths ; and then we should amend our faults , and be thank- ful for such information ...
... rendered him invulnerable . When he was misrepre- sented and calumniated , he would say , " Our enemies are sometimes our best friends , and tell us truths ; and then we should amend our faults , and be thank- ful for such information ...
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... render it produc- tive of the sublimest improvement ? This piece of holy frugality I have ventured to suggest , and endea- voured to exemplify , in the second letter ; that while the hand is cropping the transient beauties of a flower ...
... render it produc- tive of the sublimest improvement ? This piece of holy frugality I have ventured to suggest , and endea- voured to exemplify , in the second letter ; that while the hand is cropping the transient beauties of a flower ...
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... render the passage more literally , " Before the face of a moth , " making it to represent a creature so exceedingly frail , that even a moth flying against it may dash it to pieces ; which , besides its closer correspondence with the ...
... render the passage more literally , " Before the face of a moth , " making it to represent a creature so exceedingly frail , that even a moth flying against it may dash it to pieces ; which , besides its closer correspondence with the ...
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Página 363 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Página 134 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Página 250 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Página 154 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Página 51 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 208 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Página 44 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Página 241 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Página 62 - JEHOVAH'S kingdom, and conjointly with the soul, made " his jewels ;" made " his peculiar pleasure ;" made to shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever'?
Página 236 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,