The covenant of love, a manual of devotion for the sick and suffering

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Hatchards, 1878 - Sick - 120 pages
 

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Page 89 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts : for the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 85 - And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, "It is my people:" and they shall say, "The Lord is my God.
Page 102 - O GOD, Who hast prepared for them that love Thee such good things as pass man's understanding ; pour into our hearts such love toward Thee, that we, loving Thee above all things, may obtain Thy promises, which exceed all that we can desire ; through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen.
Page 29 - My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God : when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
Page 16 - I" LOVE my God, but with no love of mine, •*• For I have none to give ; I love thee, Lord, but all the love is thine, For by thy life I live ; I am as nothing, and rejoice to be Emptied, and lost, and swallow'd up in thee.
Page 9 - Thither my weak and weary steps are tending — Saviour and Lord ! with Thy frail child abide ! Guide me toward Home, where, all my wanderings ending, I shall see Thee, "and shall be satisfied !
Page 17 - Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold I bring him forth to you that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
Page 102 - They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Page 28 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.

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