The Altar: Or, Meditations in Verse on the Great Christian Sacrifice ; with Numerous IllustrationsJames Burns, 1847 - 136 pages |
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The Altar: Or Meditations in Verse on the Great Christian Sacrifice (Classic ... Isaac Williams No preview available - 2018 |
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Almighty Altar AMEN amid angels Apostle Barabbas bear beatific Behold Beneath beseech Thee bleeding Blood Blood Divine bosom breast Caiaphas celestial cloud Cross crown dark day of Heaven death deep didst Divine dost doth dread drop dying e'en earth eternal everlasting evil eyes faith fear flesh Gethsemane gloom glory Godhead Golgotha grant grief hands hang hast hath heart Heaven Herod hide Jesu Christ John Chrysostom Joseph of Arimathea judgment-hall kingdom lifted light Lord &c Lord Jesu Lord Jesu Christ man's meek Mother mourn neath night o'er ourselves to know pain Paradise penitential Pilate pray Thee PRAYER repose rest robe Saints sanctified shadows shew sight silent sins skies soul spirit suffering tears therein Thine things Thou didst thoughts throne Thy blessed Thy Church Thy grace Thy love Thy sorrows Thy words Thyself tomb unto Thee voice weep winter lent wound
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Page 32 - ... and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 24 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
Page 64 - Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd : and their soul shall be as a watered garden ; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Page 52 - Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, "Where is the Lord thy God?" mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
Page 40 - And beside this giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye, shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD Jesus Christ.
Page 40 - For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Page 52 - For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God: for we also are weak ¡in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
Page 72 - They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Page 110 - With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Page 44 - I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die ; even from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.