The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions,... The Quarterly Review - Page 220publié par - 1825Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditatiou are faitb, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith,...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are laitb, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith,...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pages
...amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditatiou are faith, thanksgiving1, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform,...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Fatth, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with...• modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Jndge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1828 - 356 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. " The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
| 1833 - 378 pages
...Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. — Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
| American education society - 1833 - 406 pages
...Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. — Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pages
...The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Fait}), himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle,...flesh, and of his bones. For this cause, shall a man Repentance trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 686 pages
...be obvious that we have facts on our side. He says: — "Thanksgiving, the most joyful of all human effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions,...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed." Why not expressed ? Does not the Book of Psalms abound with expressions of thankfulness, couched in... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. " The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving,...few modes, and is to be felt, rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
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