A guide to 'the gates of Zion' for those who visit London, sketches of eminent preachers in the metroplis1848 - 80 頁 |
搜尋書籍內容
第 33 頁
... At Church , with meek and unaffected grace , His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway , And fools that came to scoff remained to pray . " MR . B. is happy in the possession of " " GATES OF ...
... At Church , with meek and unaffected grace , His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway , And fools that came to scoff remained to pray . " MR . B. is happy in the possession of " " GATES OF ...
其他版本 - 查看全部
常見字詞
adorned ALDIS ANDREW REED appearance attention awful beautiful believer blessing bright CAMBERWELL CHAPEL character charms Christ christian church church of England Clayton common place confidence congregation consecrated countenance delightful discourses displayed distinguished divine doctrines effect energy everlasting exalted excellent exercise expression faith feeling glory glowing go and hear God's gospel grace gracious happy hearers heart heaven heavenly highest Holy Spirit honor hope idea immortal mind impressive infinite infinitely momentous intelligent interest Jesus language listening Lombard Street manner mighty power MILE END minister ministerial natural image noble peculiar perfect pleasing poet possesses preacher preaching present profound pulpit Redeemer refined remark revealed truth ROBERT MONTGOMERY Rowland Hill sacred seems sense serious sermons simplicity sincere solemn soul speaking spiritual strong style sublime SURREY CHAPEL sweet talents things THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE thoughts tion triumph true eloquence unbeliever unfolding venerable Villiers voice wisdom word writer Zion
熱門章節
第 34 頁 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
第 34 頁 - Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distrest ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven, As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, • Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
第 42 頁 - Greek I slur a name a poet must not speak) Stood pilloried on infamy's high stage, And bore the pelting scorn of half an age ; The very butt of slander, and the blot For every dart that malice ever shot.
第 13 頁 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand : for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
第 33 頁 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
第 43 頁 - Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
第 44 頁 - To bear it, suffer'd shame where'er he went. Blush, calumny ! and write upon his tomb, If honest eulogy can spare...
第 99 頁 - Preacher, who aims at doing good, will endeavour above all things to insulate his hearers, to place each of them apart, and render it impossible for him to escape by losing himself in the crowd. At the day of judgment, the attention excited by the surrounding scene, the strange aspect of nature, the dissolution of the elements, and the last trump — will have no other effect, than to cause the reflections of the sinner to return with a more overwhelming tide on his own character, his sentence, his...
第 34 頁 - Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place. Unpractised he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour: Far other aims his heart had learned to prize— More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.
第 35 頁 - I say unto you, .that inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.