Isabella Hamilton, ed. by the author of 'Aids to development'.

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Page iv - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things. God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 29 - Tis caught unquenched on high, Those saintlike brows so hoary Shall wear it in the sky. No smile is like the smile of death, When all good musings past Rise wafted with the parting breath, The sweetest thought the last.
Page 41 - The vista'd joys of heaven's eternal year : Weep not for her ! Weep not for her! Her memory is the shrine Of pleasant thoughts, soft as the scent of flowers, Calm as on windless eve the sun's decline, Sweet as the song of birds...
Page 27 - For we have heard him say ; That this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Page 68 - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Page 31 - Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Page iii - J but to probe the wounds to the bottom, by means of ' the word of God, which is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Page 85 - Whom have I in the heavens high But thee, O Lord alone ? And in the earth whom I desire Besides thee there is none.
Page 41 - Rich as a rainbow with its hues of light, Pure as the moonshine of an autumn night : Weep not for her ! Weep not for her ! — There is no cause for woe ; But rather nerve the spirit, that it walk Unshrinking o'er the thorny paths below, And from earth's low defilements keep thee back : So...
Page 21 - And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb : and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

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