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... perfect love to God . Hence , as hatred of God is the spirit of sin , love is represented as the essential grace , as the ful- filling of the law . The growth of the soul in holiness must be estimated , not by deep excitement , whether ...
... perfect love to God . Hence , as hatred of God is the spirit of sin , love is represented as the essential grace , as the ful- filling of the law . The growth of the soul in holiness must be estimated , not by deep excitement , whether ...
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... Perfect sanctification car- ries with it perfect love . The death of Christ , the * Banquet , Stallbaum's ed . , p . 156 . " Love is the leading passion of the soul ; all the rest con- form themselves to it , desire and hope and fear ...
... Perfect sanctification car- ries with it perfect love . The death of Christ , the * Banquet , Stallbaum's ed . , p . 156 . " Love is the leading passion of the soul ; all the rest con- form themselves to it , desire and hope and fear ...
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... perfect beauty . So it is with great poets ; they must be read often and studied reverent- ly , before an unpractised mind can gain any thing like an adequate notion of their excellence . reader must be convinced that if he does not ...
... perfect beauty . So it is with great poets ; they must be read often and studied reverent- ly , before an unpractised mind can gain any thing like an adequate notion of their excellence . reader must be convinced that if he does not ...
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... perfect for giving utterance to our emotions ; and we rejoice to find , under the light of the Holy Ghost , our unsanctified misapprehensions giving place to the conviction , that the love of Jesus towards us is infinitely greater than ...
... perfect for giving utterance to our emotions ; and we rejoice to find , under the light of the Holy Ghost , our unsanctified misapprehensions giving place to the conviction , that the love of Jesus towards us is infinitely greater than ...
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... perfect ac- cordance with the spirit of oriental poetry . " The Song of songs is an oriental poem ; and this allegoric mode of describing the sacred union subsisting be- tween mankind at large , or an individual and pious soul , and the ...
... perfect ac- cordance with the spirit of oriental poetry . " The Song of songs is an oriental poem ; and this allegoric mode of describing the sacred union subsisting be- tween mankind at large , or an individual and pious soul , and the ...
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affection allegory amid angels beauty behold beloved body bosom bride camphire chap Christ Christian Church cloud colour crown daughters of Jerusalem delight desire dwell earth emblem enjoy excellence expressed eyes feel flock flowers fragrance frankincense fruits fulness garden give glorious glory gold grace heart heaven heavenly Hebrew Hence Heshbon Holy Ghost Holy Spirit human illustration interpretation Jerusalem Jewish king language Lebanon light lilies Lord Jesus love of Christ loveliness manifestations meaning mind mount Gilead mountains myrrh nature ness oriental ornaments passage perfect perfume person pious pleasant pleasure pomegranate prayer precious present redeemed refreshing rejoice rich saint sanctification says Scriptures seek shadow Shechinah Shenir Solomon Song Song of Solomon Song of songs soul speaking spices spikenard splendour spouse spring sweet thee Theocritus Theodore of Mopsuestia things thou tion tower tower of David tree truth unto verse vine voice wine words
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Page 301 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Page 444 - I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped Shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, — sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the Monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native Sea.
Page 234 - The eternal regions : lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life...
Page 490 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 188 - They shall not hunger nor thirst ; Neither shall the heat nor sun smite them : For he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, Even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Page 65 - I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. 6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Page 489 - Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 287 - The voice of my beloved ! behold he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart : Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.
Page 382 - With buds, and bells, and stars without a name, With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign, Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same...
Page 486 - And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.