The Early Dawn: Or, Sketches of Christian Life in England in the Olden TimeM. W. Dodd, 1864 - 397 pages |
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Page 158 - I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
Page 158 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Page 209 - Liber scriptus proferetur, In quo totum continetur, Unde mundus judicetur. Judex ergo cum sedebit, Quidquid latet apparebit : Nil inultum remanebit. Quid sum, miser ! tune dicturus ? Quern patronum rogaturus ? Cum vix Justus sit securus.
Page 189 - Why sayest thou. O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 130 - Receive my head into your hands, for it is a great satisfaction to me to sit facing my holy place, where I was wont to pray, that I may also sitting call upon my Father." And thus on the pavement of his little cell, singing, " Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost," when he had named the Holy Ghost, he breathed his last, and so departed to the heavenly kingdom.
Page 56 - Let us all kneel, and jointly beseech the true and living God Almighty, in his mercy, to defend us from the haughty and fierce enemy ; for He knows that we have undertaken a just war for the safety of our nation.
Page 218 - At meate was she well ytaught withal; She let no morsel from her lippes fall, Ne wet her fingers in her sauce deep ; Well could she carry a morsel and well keep Thatte no droppe ne fell upon her breast: In curtesy was set full much her lest.
Page 73 - may you live as long as you have lived and as much more, and thrice as much as all this, and if God give you one year in addition to the others you will be a century old :
Page 52 - Now if the gods were good for anything, they would rather forward me, who have been more careful to serve them. It remains, therefore, that if upon examination you find those new doctrines, which are now preached to us, better and more efficacious, we immediately receive them without any delay.
Page 93 - Then, rising immediately, he repaired to the oratory of the little town, and continuing in prayer till day, immediately divided all his substance into three parts, one whereof he gave to his wife, another to his children, and the third, belonging to himself, he instantly distributed among the poor. Not long after, he repaired to the monastery of Melrose, which is almost enclosed by the winding of the river Tweed, and having been shaven, went into a private dwelling, which the abbot had provided,...