Gospel Sonnets; Or, Spiritual Songs: In Six Parts. 1. The Believer's Espousals. 2. The Believer's Jointure. 3. The Believer's Riddle. 4. The Believer's Lodging. 5. The Believer's Soliloquy. 6. The Believer's Principles ...J. Oswald, 1750 - 270 pages |
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... Cafe . They fancy prefent Pray'rs and future Pains , Will for their former Failings make amends : To legal Yokes they bow their fervile Necks , And leaft foul Slips their falfe Repose perplex , Think Jefus ' Merits make up all Defects ...
... Cafe . They fancy prefent Pray'rs and future Pains , Will for their former Failings make amends : To legal Yokes they bow their fervile Necks , And leaft foul Slips their falfe Repose perplex , Think Jefus ' Merits make up all Defects ...
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... Cafe , Quite powerless to believe , repent , or pray , Thus Pride of Duties flies and dies away . She , like a harden'd Wretch , a ftupid Stone , Lies in the Duft , and cries , Undone , Undone . SECT . III . The deeply humbled Soul ...
... Cafe , Quite powerless to believe , repent , or pray , Thus Pride of Duties flies and dies away . She , like a harden'd Wretch , a ftupid Stone , Lies in the Duft , and cries , Undone , Undone . SECT . III . The deeply humbled Soul ...
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... Cafe ! But lo ! in this fad Plight The Sun arifes with furprizing Light . The darkest Midnight is his ufual Time Of rifing and appearing in his Prime . To fhew the Hills from whence Salvation fprings , And chafe the gloomy Shades with ...
... Cafe ! But lo ! in this fad Plight The Sun arifes with furprizing Light . The darkest Midnight is his ufual Time Of rifing and appearing in his Prime . To fhew the Hills from whence Salvation fprings , And chafe the gloomy Shades with ...
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... Cafe , They owe to free Difplays of Sov❜reign Grace ; Whofe joyful Tidings of amazing Love , The Miniftration of the Spirit prove . The glorious Vent the Gospel News exprefs , Of God's free Grace , thro ' Chrift's full Righteousness ...
... Cafe , They owe to free Difplays of Sov❜reign Grace ; Whofe joyful Tidings of amazing Love , The Miniftration of the Spirit prove . The glorious Vent the Gospel News exprefs , Of God's free Grace , thro ' Chrift's full Righteousness ...
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... Cafe , ' Twill be an Act of powerful Sov'reign Grace . Sequeftrate carefully fome folemn Hours , To fue thy grand Concern in fecret Bowers . Then in th ' enfuing Strain to God impart , And pour into his Bofom all thy Heart . " O ...
... Cafe , ' Twill be an Act of powerful Sov'reign Grace . Sequeftrate carefully fome folemn Hours , To fue thy grand Concern in fecret Bowers . Then in th ' enfuing Strain to God impart , And pour into his Bofom all thy Heart . " O ...
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Page 174 - Lord is a Sun and Shield : He will give Grace and Glory, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Page 154 - To Good and Evil equal bent, I'm both a Devil and a Saint.
Page 181 - My faith, that sees so darkly here, Will there resign to vision clear ; My hope, that's here a weary groan, Will to fruition yield the throne. Here fetters hamper freedom's wing, But there the captive is a king ; And grace is like a buried seed, But sinners there are saints indeed.
Page 194 - Our Lord is ours, and we are his ; Yea, now we see him as he is ; And hence we like unto him are, And full his glorious image share. " No darkness now, no dismal night, No vapour intercepts the light ; We see for ever face to face, The highest Prince in highsst place. " This, this, does heav'n enough afford, We are for ever with the Lord; We want no more, for all is giv'n; His presence is the heart of heav'n.
Page 180 - But there, all griefs are swallow'd up. Love here is scarce a faint desire ; But there, the spark's a flaming fire ; , Joys here are drops, that passing flee ; But there, an overflowing sea.
Page 267 - Paraphrase or Large Explicatory Poem upon the Song of Solomon, Wherein the mutual love of Christ and His Church Contained in that Old Testament Song is imitated in the language of the New Testament, and adapted to the Gospel- dispensation.