| Christian poets - 1851 - 470 pages
...spy. All may of thee partake -. Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture ' For thy sake ' Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause...all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told. "THE EYE IS NOT SATISFIED WITH SEEING; NOR THE EAB WITH HEARING." WHEN God... | |
| George Herbert - 1851 - 464 pages
...espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture, FOR THY SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause,...Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and th' action, fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold ; For that, which God doth touch... | |
| George Herbert - 1851 - 468 pages
...thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture, FOR THY SAKE, Will not grow hright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery...Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and th' action, fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold ; For that, which God doth touch... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...; Nothing can be so mean, "Which with this tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. probability. A DOG, crossing a little rivulet with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw h Cannot for less be told. ^ SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1552—1618. The Strength of Kings. They say the goodliest... | |
| 1852 - 784 pages
...vile ; and as George Herbert truly, though quaintly, says of working with God's glory in view — ' A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ;...as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.' It was not merely for the sake of the converts at Rome that Paul magnified his office. And the teacher... | |
| Sarah Jackson, S. J. (Sarah Jackson), J. (Sarah Jackson S. J. (Sarah Jackson) - 1852 - 114 pages
...Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, FOR THY SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. V. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine...Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and th' action, fine. This is the famous stone, That turneth all to gold ; For that, which God doth touch... | |
| John Stoughton - 1852 - 290 pages
...service to Almighty God." He discovered in habitual devotion what Herbert calls " the elixir" of life— "This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold ; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told." And amidst the cares, and troubles, and vexations, and sorrows of secular... | |
| George Herbert - 1853 - 372 pages
...espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause...Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. SOUL'S joy, wher And 1 21J. ^avs. wLersa I Irt cr~.jL 1 5s. tat eve ; fir iife K sza-r^.... | |
| George Herbert, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 372 pages
...espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause...Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1853 - 406 pages
...thee. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean Which with this tincture, For thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause...Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for God's laws, Makes that and the action fine. All these texts and principles lead us to the grand principle... | |
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