Discourses, Reviews, and MiscellaniesCarter and Hendee, 1830 - 603 páginas |
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... . Extracts from a Sermon delivered 18 September , 1814 , when an Invasion by the British Forces was ap- prehended at Boston . Notice of the Rev. S. C. THACHER . 583 591 598 PREFACE . THE present volume , is , with the iv CONTENTS .
... . Extracts from a Sermon delivered 18 September , 1814 , when an Invasion by the British Forces was ap- prehended at Boston . Notice of the Rev. S. C. THACHER . 583 591 598 PREFACE . THE present volume , is , with the iv CONTENTS .
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... present views ; and some , because they owed their interest to events , which have faded more or less from the pub- lic mind . In their present form , I wish none of them to be found in a collection of my writings . I esteem it a ...
... present views ; and some , because they owed their interest to events , which have faded more or less from the pub- lic mind . In their present form , I wish none of them to be found in a collection of my writings . I esteem it a ...
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... present day , which , under pretence of maintaining old opinions , so disguises and discolors them , that they can with difficulty be recognised . I must have thrown back the charge of misrepresentation , and shown how unfairly I was ...
... present day , which , under pretence of maintaining old opinions , so disguises and discolors them , that they can with difficulty be recognised . I must have thrown back the charge of misrepresentation , and shown how unfairly I was ...
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... present strength to nothing so much , as to the con- stancy and resolution of its friends in this quarter . Here its chief battle has been fought , and not fought in vain . The spirit of intol- erance is not indeed crushed ; but its ...
... present strength to nothing so much , as to the con- stancy and resolution of its friends in this quarter . Here its chief battle has been fought , and not fought in vain . The spirit of intol- erance is not indeed crushed ; but its ...
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... present and visible , struggling against the bounds of its earthly prison - house , and seeking relief and joy in imaginings of unseen and ideal being . This view of our nature , which has never been fully developed , and which goes ...
... present and visible , struggling against the bounds of its earthly prison - house , and seeking relief and joy in imaginings of unseen and ideal being . This view of our nature , which has never been fully developed , and which goes ...
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Página 239 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Página 401 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Página 27 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren 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.
Página 27 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Página 13 - And in sweet madness robbed it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Página 50 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery : and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Página 27 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with ^cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Página 229 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Página 11 - ... not true that the poet paints a life which does not exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of...
Página 258 - God to be the light of the world, and "able to save to the uttermost all who come to God by him." We are therefore seldom called to preach Christ in the senses which have just been considered, and our preaching must of course differ in a measure from that of the Apostles.