The Golden Censer: Being a Selection from the Prayers of the Saints, A. D. 69-1890

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Longmans, Green, 1890 - Prayers - 142 pages
 

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Page 30 - LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid : thou hast loosed my bonds.
Page 45 - 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 3 - Maps. THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE FROM THE FLIGHT of Xerxes to the Fall of Athens.
Page 3 - THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. By J. BASS MULLINGER, MA THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES. By the Rev.
Page 96 - SPEAK low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so Who art not missed by any that entreat. Speak to me as to Mary at thy feet ! And if no precious gums my hands bestow, Let my tears drop like amber, while I go In reach of thy divinest voice complete In humanest affection — thus, in sooth To lose the sense of losing. As a child, Whose song-bird seeks the wood...
Page 65 - Into thy hands I commend my spirit : for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth.
Page 3 - MOBERLY, MA The Era of the Protestant Revolution. By F. SEEBOHM. With 4 Maps. The Age of Elizabeth. By the Rev. M. CREIGHTON, MA, LL.D. With 5 Maps. The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution, 1603-1660.
Page 22 - Son of God, Redeemer of the world, O Holy Ghost, three persons and one God, have mercy upon me, most wretched caitiff and miserable sinner. I have offended both against heaven and earth more than my tongue can express. Whither, then, may I go, or whither shall I flee?
Page 45 - When the passing-bell doth toll, And the Furies in a shoal, Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit comfort me! When the tapers now burn blue, And the comforters are few, And that number more than true, Sweet Spirit comfort me!
Page 33 - Thy strength be made perfect in my weakness. Day is fled and gone ; life too is going, this lifeless life. Night cometh, and cometh death, the deathless death. Near as is the end of day, so too the end of life. "We then also remembering it, beseech of Thee, for the close of our life, that Thou...

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