'O mother, mother!'

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Seite 41 - LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes. Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without, our shame ; within, our consciences ; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and...
Seite 42 - Come." 2 So vile I am, how dare I hope to stand In the pure glory of that holy land ? Before the whiteness of that throne appear ? Yet there are hands stretched out to draw me near. 3...
Seite 39 - He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
Seite 40 - He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
Seite 37 - I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Seite 33 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Seite 38 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery, but I say unto you, Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Seite 8 - I know thou knowest all, and it is thou151 that declarest unto man what is his heart. Without thee, O sovereign Goodness, I could not know how ill my heart were. Thou hast declared unto me, in thy word, that...
Seite 42 - Before the whiteness ofthat throne appear? Yet there are hands stretched out to draw me near. 3 The while I fain would tread the heavenly way, Evil is ever with me day by day ; Yet on mine ears the gracious tidings fall, " Repent, confess, thou shall be loosed from all.

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