Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Volume 32The Society, 1878 |
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Page 37 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...
Page 107 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 6 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 54 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God...
Page 122 - Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove...
Page 122 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 273 - Amidst the din of all things fell and vile, Hate's yell, and envy's hiss, and folly's bray, Remember me; and with an unforced smile See riches, baubles, flatterers, pass away. "Yes: they will pass away; nor deem it strange: They come and go, as comes and goes the sea: And let them come and go: thou, through all change, Fix thy firm gaze on virtue and on me.
Page 46 - For if any man shall think, by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things, to attain to any light for the revealing of the nature or will of God ; he shall dangerously abuse himself.
Page 117 - Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne ; he seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Page 257 - He had a little plot of ground at the back of the house, marked out as his own by a row of oyster-shells which a maid one day threw away as rubbish. He went straight to the drawing-room, where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said very solemnly : " Cursed be Sally : for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbor's land-mark.