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Page 113 - Why shrinks the soul Hack on herself and startles at destruction ? *Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
Page 71 - wishfully she looks On all she's leaving, now no longer her's! A little longer, yet a little longer. Oh might she stay, to wash away her stains And fit her for her passage !—Mournful sight! Her very eyes weep blood ;—and every groan She heaves is big with horror.—But the foe,
Page 117 - namely, from analogical reasoning, Origen has with singular sagacity observed, that ' he who believes the scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as
Page 107 - I knew a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell, God knoweth ; how that he was caught up into paradise, and
Page 71 - a staunch murd'rer, steady to his purpose, Pursues her close through every lane of life, Nor misses once the track, but presses on ; Till forc'd at last to the tremendous verge, At once she sinks to everlasting
Page 179 - be merciful to me a sinner ! Jesus, let thy pitying eye Call back a wandering sheep; False to thee, like Peter, I Would fain like Peter weep. Let me be by grace res'tor'd ; On me be all long-suffering
Page 99 - A serious thing to die ! My soul I What a strange moment must it be, when near Thy journey's end thou hast the gulf in view ! That awful gulf no mortal e'er repass'd To tell what's doing on the other side
Page 139 - he received ninety pounds, and gave away sixty-two. The fourth year he received one hundred and twenty pounds, still he lived on twentyeight, and gave to the poor ninety-two." In this ratio he proceeded during the rest of his life ; and in the course of fifty years, it has been supposed, he gave away between twenty and thirty thousand pounds.
Page 177 - Ah, Lord, with trembling I confess, A gracious soul may fall from grace ! The salt may lose its seasoning power, And never, never find it more ' Lest that my fearful case should be. Each moment knit my soul to
Page 151 - Far from the path of peace, ' (That lonely, unfrequented way) ■ To life and happiness, ' Why will ye folly love, ' And throng the downward road; ■ And hate the wisdom from above,