The descent into Hell, a poem [by J.A. Heraud]. |
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... souls were saved by water . The like figure whereunto even Baptism , doth also now save us . " The reason for Messiah's preaching is given by the same Apostle in the following chapter , verse 6 . " For this cause was the Gospel preached ...
... souls were saved by water . The like figure whereunto even Baptism , doth also now save us . " The reason for Messiah's preaching is given by the same Apostle in the following chapter , verse 6 . " For this cause was the Gospel preached ...
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... souls were saved by water . The like figure whereunto even Baptism , doth also now save us . " The reason for Messiah's preaching is given by the same Apostle in the following chapter , verse 6 . " For this cause was the Gospel preached ...
... souls were saved by water . The like figure whereunto even Baptism , doth also now save us . " The reason for Messiah's preaching is given by the same Apostle in the following chapter , verse 6 . " For this cause was the Gospel preached ...
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... soul to sense , Life - giving Light ! her graves even yearn for thee ... Strange echoes in the dreamy gloom commence , Ancestral ages are unsepulchred , Old oracles awaken from suspense . The Life - the Light of men is darkened- Dark is ...
... soul to sense , Life - giving Light ! her graves even yearn for thee ... Strange echoes in the dreamy gloom commence , Ancestral ages are unsepulchred , Old oracles awaken from suspense . The Life - the Light of men is darkened- Dark is ...
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... soul to sense , Life - giving Light ! her graves even yearn for thee ... Strange echoes in the dreamy gloom commence , Ancestral ages are unsepulchred , Old oracles awaken from suspense . The Life - the Light of men is darkened— Dark is ...
... soul to sense , Life - giving Light ! her graves even yearn for thee ... Strange echoes in the dreamy gloom commence , Ancestral ages are unsepulchred , Old oracles awaken from suspense . The Life - the Light of men is darkened— Dark is ...
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... ascend to heaven upon the brine , And sink again into the immensity Profound ; because of fear their troubled souls Melt and reel drunken in their agony , And then they cry to Thee - Thy power controls THE DARKNESS . 27.
... ascend to heaven upon the brine , And sink again into the immensity Profound ; because of fear their troubled souls Melt and reel drunken in their agony , And then they cry to Thee - Thy power controls THE DARKNESS . 27.
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Page 140 - For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy GOD. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Page 52 - Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 178 - Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Page 178 - Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic ; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Page 178 - By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Page 12 - And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands ? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Page 178 - Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth ; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God ; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.