The Life of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and WellsGeneral Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society, 1859 - 317 pages |
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appointed Archbishop beautiful beloved Bishop Burnet Bishop Hooper Bishop Ken Bishop Lloyd Bishop of Bath Bishop of Ely blessed brethren Cathedral Catholic cause chaplain CHAPTER charity Christian Church of England clergy Communion conscience consecrated court death Declaration deprived Bishops desire devotion Diocese Diocese of Bath discourse Dissenters divine duty exhort faith Father favor glory God's heart heaven Holy honor humble Hymns infirm Isaac Walton James Judah Ken's King King's Lady letter liberty live London Longleat Lord Lord Weymouth Lordship ment monarch Monmouth morning never night non-juring Bishops non-jurors oath pain palace parish Parliament party persons poems Poulshot pounds Praise prayers preached present Prince of Orange prisoners Protestant Queen received refused resignation respecting retired royal sent sermon soon soul spirit summoned Sunday Thee Thomas Ken Thou thought tion Turner Walton William Winchester zeal
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Page 57 - Direct, control, suggest, this day, All I design, or do, or say ; That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite.
Page 58 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day. O may my soul on Thee repose, And may sweet sleep mine eyelids close, Sleep, that may me more vigorous make To serve my God when I awake. When in the night I sleepless lie, My soul with heavenly thoughts supply ; Let no ill dreams disturb my rest, No powers of darkness me molest.
Page 122 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Page 56 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth — and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice. 2 Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart, And with the angels bear thy part, Who all night long unwearied sing High praises to th
Page 259 - Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David left him, when he went to rest, His lyre; and after him he sung the best.
Page 90 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Page 59 - O, may my Guardian while I sleep Close to my bed his vigils keep, His love angelical instil. Stop all the avenues of ill. May he celestial joy rehearse. And thought to thought with me converse ; Or in my stead, all the night long. Sing to my God a grateful song.
Page 159 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
Page 305 - As for my religion, I die in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic faith, professed by the whole Church, before the disunion of East and West ; more particularly I die in the Communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.
Page 152 - I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him...