Ears of corn from various sheaves: thoughts for the closet, ed. by S. Lettis1851 |
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... feel the greatest need of God's assistance , and the most anxious desire to amend our lives , we are sensible of a listlessness which renders our prayers and meditations vague , and produces a disheartening sense of estrangement from ...
... feel the greatest need of God's assistance , and the most anxious desire to amend our lives , we are sensible of a listlessness which renders our prayers and meditations vague , and produces a disheartening sense of estrangement from ...
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... feels . - COLERIDGE . Expression is the dress of thought , and still Appears more decent as more suitable . - POPE . The prayers I make , will then be sweet indeed , If Thou the Spirit give by which I pray , My unassisted heart is ...
... feels . - COLERIDGE . Expression is the dress of thought , and still Appears more decent as more suitable . - POPE . The prayers I make , will then be sweet indeed , If Thou the Spirit give by which I pray , My unassisted heart is ...
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... feel in looking at it over and over , and again and again , if you thought you should find it good and pure and holy . What a luxury would it be to start a new virtue at every step of our inquiry , to indulge in the contemplation of our ...
... feel in looking at it over and over , and again and again , if you thought you should find it good and pure and holy . What a luxury would it be to start a new virtue at every step of our inquiry , to indulge in the contemplation of our ...
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... upon sense , and make that the judge of their spiritual estate , being too much de- jected , when they do not sensibly feel the proofs of their E proficiency , and the present proceedings of their regene- ration SPIRITUAL PROGRESS.
... upon sense , and make that the judge of their spiritual estate , being too much de- jected , when they do not sensibly feel the proofs of their E proficiency , and the present proceedings of their regene- ration SPIRITUAL PROGRESS.
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... feel a joy in the exercise of it , we may be sure it is spurious and hypocritical . If we can succeed in bringing our appetite to fasten upon what we do ourselves , without reference to what is done elsewhere , we shall lose nothing by ...
... feel a joy in the exercise of it , we may be sure it is spurious and hypocritical . If we can succeed in bringing our appetite to fasten upon what we do ourselves , without reference to what is done elsewhere , we shall lose nothing by ...
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actions affections affliction bear behold blessed body breath canst charity Christ Christian conscience creatures cross dark death degree of guilt desire devotion disposition Divine Divine Grace doth duty earth enemies enjoyment eternal evil faith Father faults fear feel felicity folly forgive give glory God's goeth grace Hall happiness hath heart heaven heavenly holy hope hour humble imperfect infinite Jeremy Taylor Jesus judge Kempis labour live look Lord meditation mercy mind nature never occasions of sin ourselves pain passions perfect piety pleasure praise pray prayer present prosperity Psalms receive repentance Robert Hall secret sickness sins Sir Thomas Browne sometimes sorrow soul spirit strength suffer sweet Taylor temper temptation thee thine things Thomas à Kempis Thomas Browne thou art thou hast thou wilt thoughts thyself true unto virtue watch weak wisdom word worldly wouldst YARMOUTH
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الصفحة 120 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
الصفحة 120 - We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
الصفحة 141 - It is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
الصفحة 91 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over, he is superior ; for it is a prince's part to pardon : and Solomon, I am sure, saith, " It is the " glory of a man to pass by an offence.
الصفحة 140 - MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a 'tribute due unto nature, is wealc, Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
الصفحة 65 - Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. 26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
الصفحة 19 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
الصفحة 82 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
الصفحة 23 - And I will place within them as a guide, My umpire Conscience ; whom if they will hear, Light after light, well us'd, they shall attain, And to the end, persisting, safe arrive.
الصفحة 18 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection; the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thought*, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...