The Loyalists: An Historical Novel, Band 2

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Longmans, 1812
 

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Seite 125 - University was so far from submitting to, that they met in their Convocation, and, to their eternal renown, (being at the same time under a strict and strong garrison, put over them by the Parliament ; the king in prison ; and all their hopes desperate,) passed a public act and declaration against the Covenant, with such invincible arguments...
Seite 57 - Would save my queen From a base ravisher ; would wish to plunge This falchion in his breast, and so avenge Insulted royalty. Oh holy men ! Ye are the sons of piety and peace ; Ye never felt the sharp vindictive spur, That goads the injur'd warrior; the hot tide, That flushes crimson on the conscious cheek Of him, who burns for glory ; else indeed Ye much would pity me : would curse the fate That coops me here inactive in your groves, Robs me of hope, tells me this trusty steel Must never cleave one...
Seite 157 - ... whereby we are exempted from death, the punishment of sin, and entitled to eternal life, as the free subjects and ' children of God.' We, being thus ' delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God,' are exhorted to ' stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,' as the most exalted privilege of our new birth-right. What then ? Shall we sin, because we are redeemed both from the rigour and curse of the law ? God forbid. We are so far...
Seite 227 - Oh, she has used it for the noblest ends ! To fill each duty ; make her father feel The purest joy, the heart-dissolving bliss To have a grateful child. But has the rage Of slaughter ceased ? Pho. It has. Evan. Where is Timoleon ? Pho. He guards the citadel ; there gives his' orders To calm the uproar, and recall from carnage His conquering troops.
Seite 129 - ... of people who are righteous over much. A young fellow, well stored with Greek and Latin, waited upon the head of a college, designing to be examined, preparatory to an election which was drawing near. He found all dark, dismal and gloomy : the head of the college came out to him from an inner room, with half a dozen nightcaps on his head, and religious horror in his countenance.
Seite 125 - ... a strict and strong garrison, put over them by the Parliament, the King in prison, and their hopes desperate, passed a public act and declaration against the Covenant, with such invincible arguments of the illegality, wickedness, and perjury contained in it, that no man of the contrary opinion, nor the assembly of Divines, which then sat at Westminster, ever ventured to make...
Seite 1 - ... duty amongst them, nor suppose that you may defer seeking your Creator until you can attain a retired situation. — -The idea of one day withdrawing ourselves from the world, to prepare for immortality, is a very pernicious one; and, like all other worldly hopes and plans, may never be realized. Use the present hour, if you would make your calling and election sure. You cannot arrest the strong arm of Death, or bid him wait till you have prepared yourself to obey his summons. When the Israelites...
Seite 1 - ... them : but he gives his grace equally to all. If he has placed you amidst the pomps and vanities of the world, fear not ; do your duty amongst them, nor suppose that you may defer seeking your Creator until you can attain a retired situation. — -The idea of one day withdrawing ourselves from the world, to prepare for immortality, is a very pernicious one; and, like all other worldly hopes and plans, may never be realized. Use the present hour, if you would make your calling and election sure....
Seite 26 - ... consists : — When used in moderation, they may, indeed, be innocent, and sometimes useful ; but God is not to be served only with the words of the mouth, or the bending of the knee; it is the pure and upright heart which He requires, and with which alone he will be satisfied. With this pure and upright frame of mind, we may live in the world, without either affectation or singularity, and cheerfully conform to its customs and amusements, and yet preserve the most strict subjection to our duty...
Seite 1 - ... safety. 10. God divides this world to his creatures as it seems best to his heavenly wisdom. Some he tries by the privation of worldly enjoyments, and others by the abundance of them : but he gives his grace equally to all. If" he has placed you amidst the pomps and vanities of the world, fear not ; do your duty amongst them, nor suppose that you may defer seeking your Creator until you can attain a retired situation. — The. idea of one day withdrawing ourselves from the world, to prepare for...

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