Reflections, doctrinal, practical and devotional, upon the litany of the Church of England1833 |
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adversary alluring Almighty angels arrow Atheistic author of evil beautiful blessed Saviour blood bosom calamities Chris Christ Christian Children Church comprehended convulsed Corinthians crafts and assaults Creator darkness deceit Deity desolate Devil disbelieve Divine Law Divine wrath doctrine earth elate endeavour Enthusiasm eternal everlasting damnation evil and mischief excruciating agonies Exposition of Psalm eyes faith once fanaticism fatal tree fire that never flesh forsaken gers Gethsemane give glory grace hand hath heart heathen Heaven Hebrew holy honour horrors imagination immortal infinite Jehovah let us remember Lord deliver lust malicious merciful method of assault mighty mind never dieth occasion old Serpent open assaults Pagan pain Paradise parent Parkhurst's philosophers polluted pray pride protection and succour Psalm cxix religion Satan Scrip Scripture sinner's sorrowful soul species Spirit sufferings temptation tempted thou wouldst thy wrath tian tion trial Truth vanity venom whelming wicked wiles wisdom word worm that never wretched
Popular passages
Page 7 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 5 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot. obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it.
Page 1 - From all evil and mischief, from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the devil, from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 4 - Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep [me] from evil, that it may not grieve me ! And God granted him that which he requested.
Page 8 - Lord ! since our looks to thee are often so slight, so cold, so distant, that no impression is made upon our hearts, do thou condescend continually to look upon us with mercy and with power. Vouchsafe us such a look, as may bring us to ourselves, and touch us with tenderness and contrition in the remembrance of that sin, unbelief, and disobedience, which pierced the bauds, the feet, the heart of our dearest Lord and Saviour. Comp. Luke xxii. 61. — Charles Bridges. Verse 132. — "As thou usest...
Page 3 - Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up : he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Page 1 - MAN, considered in himself, is a very helpless and a very wretched being. He is subject every moment to the greatest calamities and misfortunes. He is beset -with dangers on all sides ; and may become unhappy by numberless casualties, which he could not foresee, nor have prevented had he foreseen them.
Page 4 - Sometimes the death-bed scene casts a fearful gleam of light upon " the worm that never dieth, and the fire that never shall be quenched...
Page 11 - eyes, and good for food, and a tree to be desired to "make one wise!
Page 4 - From the evil of sin, by Thy grace ; and from the evil of punishment, by Thy mercy...