Baptist Worthies: A Series of Sketches of Distinguished Men who Have Held and Advocated the Principles of the Baptist Denomination, Bände 1-12

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Baptist Tract and Book Society, 1883 - 231 Seiten

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Seite 93 - Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage. " For though men keep my outward man Within their locks and bars, . Yet by the faith of Christ I can Mount higher than the stars." These were no meaningless sounds to him—no
Seite 170 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations : spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes : for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left: and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Seite 64 - mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a
Seite 149 - 1 pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.' This painful event he does not seem to have mentioned but for the sake of convincing them that it was he himself, even their brother Joseph, and not another ; and lest the mention of it should
Seite 57 - syren daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim, with the hallowed fire of His altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases; to which
Seite 59 - due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. And love the high embowed roof, With antic pillars' massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, 'To the full-voiced quire
Seite 168 - the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty, and things which are despised, yea and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are; that no flesh
Seite 157 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts. not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, Acts the best.
Seite 151 - The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it, because it shall surely come, it will not tarry;
Seite 54 - slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took it with a conscience that would retch, he must either straight perjure or split his faith: I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking, bought and begun with servitude and forswearing.

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