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... eyes in torment , in devouring flames . Mer- cies are mingled with judgments . Kindness and severity are blended mysteriously in your case as in the case of every sinner while in probation . For he doth not afflict willingly , nor ...
... eyes in torment , in devouring flames . Mer- cies are mingled with judgments . Kindness and severity are blended mysteriously in your case as in the case of every sinner while in probation . For he doth not afflict willingly , nor ...
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... eye So little worth , doth hidden lie Most rare and subtile fragrancy : Would'st thou its secret strength unbind ? Crush it , and thou shalt perfume find , Sweet as Arabia's spicy wind . In this dull stone , so poor , and bare Of shape ...
... eye So little worth , doth hidden lie Most rare and subtile fragrancy : Would'st thou its secret strength unbind ? Crush it , and thou shalt perfume find , Sweet as Arabia's spicy wind . In this dull stone , so poor , and bare Of shape ...
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... eye , The subtile , searching process to explore , Lest the one brilliant moment should pass by , When in the molten ... eyes of flame look through the whole , May see his image perfect in the soul ? Nor with an evanescent glimpse alone ...
... eye , The subtile , searching process to explore , Lest the one brilliant moment should pass by , When in the molten ... eyes of flame look through the whole , May see his image perfect in the soul ? Nor with an evanescent glimpse alone ...
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... eyes grow dull with grief ; How long , my Lord , ere thou return , And bring my soul relief ? MERCY SUPPLICATED . O Lord , rebuke me not in thine anger.- Psalm 6 : 1 . GENTLY , gently , lay thy rod On my sinful head , O God ! Stay thy ...
... eyes grow dull with grief ; How long , my Lord , ere thou return , And bring my soul relief ? MERCY SUPPLICATED . O Lord , rebuke me not in thine anger.- Psalm 6 : 1 . GENTLY , gently , lay thy rod On my sinful head , O God ! Stay thy ...
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... eye for His all - sufficiency to show , Now in extremity of woe ; While in the furnace to lie still , — This is , indeed , to do his will . - Then cheer thee , cheer thee , though the flame Consume thy wasting , suffering frame , His ...
... eye for His all - sufficiency to show , Now in extremity of woe ; While in the furnace to lie still , — This is , indeed , to do his will . - Then cheer thee , cheer thee , though the flame Consume thy wasting , suffering frame , His ...
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Page 247 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 156 - HOW sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear ! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear. 2 It makes the wounded spirit whole, And calms the troubled breast ; 'Tis manna to the hungry soul, And to the weary, rest.
Page 239 - RISE, my soul, and stretch thy wings^ Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things, Towards heaven thy native place : Sun and moon and stars decay ; Time shall soon this earth remove : Rise, my soul, and haste away, To seats prepared above.
Page 45 - GO to dark Gethsemane, Ye that feel the tempter's power, Your Redeemer's conflict see, Watch with him one bitter hour ; Turn not from his griefs away, Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
Page ix - Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
Page 67 - If Thou shouldst call me to resign What most I prize, it ne'er was mine ; I only yield Thee what is Thine : "Thy will be done.
Page 18 - SOME murmur when their sky is clear, And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their great heaven of blue : And some with thankful love are filled, If but one streak of light, One ray of God's good mercy, gild The darkness of their night.
Page 81 - By Thy helpless infant years, By Thy life of want and tears, By Thy days of sore distress In the savage wilderness, By the dread mysterious hour Of the insulting tempter's power ; Turn, oh, turn a favouring eye, Hear our solemn Litany...
Page 82 - IN the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me...
Page 39 - My times are in thy hand," Whatever they may be; Pleasing or painful, dark or bright, As best may seem to thee. 3 " My times are in thy hand ;