The Persecuted Family: A Narrative of the Sufferings of the Presbyterians in the Reign of Charles II

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Crocker & Brewster, 1829 - 150 páginas

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Página 37 - in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste And natural in gesture; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Página 52 - heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched, than to rise. To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had vent in heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its head the rolling clouds are spread,. Eternal sunshine
Página 66 - He stablishes the strong, restores the weak, Reclaims the wanderer, binds the broken heart, And, armed himself in panoply complete Of heavenly temper, furnishes with arms Bright as his own, and trains, by every rule Of holy discipline, to glorious war, The sacramental host of God's elect!
Página 143 - merciful and Holy One! God of salvation! look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness; and .let the bow of thy mercy be seen in the wilderness. Thou wilt not forsake us. I know thy church is graven on
Página 51 - unto him that seeketh his happiness apart from thee! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER II. "Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour. Far other aims
Página 83 - rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint: the solitary place was glad; And, on the distant cairn, the watcher's
Página 107 - of God: his loins girt about with truth; having on the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation,
Página 55 - the person so convicted to the same punishment. To this, military persecution succeeded. They were both the judges and the executioners. The very forms of justice were now wholly abandoned. Gentlemen, and peasants, and ministers, were driven out to wander among the morasses and mountains of the country;—were crowded into jails,—sent into exile and slavery,—and multitudes
Página 122 - These are they," respond the choirs of heaven, "these are they which come out of great tribulation, and have washed
Página 56 - and calm resignation, to the most ignominious deaths. And, truly, they suffered not or bled in vain. God, at last, gave them the victory over all their enemies; and, through them, secured to us the religious privileges we this day enjoy. From this short sketch

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