 God as a criminal, and yet as a beggar, broken hearted, willing to part with the accursed thing; then they find the Lord to lift upon them the light of his countenance, and their peaceful hours return. They take their harps from the willows, and cry like...  Paterson's parish - Page 57de Joseph Parker - 1898 - 275 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | T.L. Kington, M.A. - 1862 - 626 pages
...cometh in the name of the Lord,' was the universal cry; to which Innocent replied with the text, ' Our soul is escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler.' He was met by the Archbishop at the head of the clergy, and was installed in the Palace. His charges... | |
 | Blanche Warre Cornish - 1873 - 358 pages
...Dresden was home to him. The verse from a cantata he was fond of, returned to him again and again : ' My soul is escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler!' 'Is escaped, is escaped,' he kept repeating. ' Make haste, my young friend, for you are only just in... | |
 | Blanche Warre Cornish - 1874 - 310 pages
...Dresden was home to him. The verse from a cantata he was fond of returned to him again and again : " My soul is escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler 1" " Is escaped, is escaped," he kept repeating. " Make haste, my young friend, for you are only just... | |
 | Lexington (Mass.) - 1875 - 198 pages
...was repealed in 1766, Dr. Mayhew preached a sermon in the West Church of Boston, from the text, " Our soul is escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler : the snare is broken, and we are escaped," — a sermon dedicated to Mr. Pitt, and full of thanksgiving... | |
 | Anne Ayres - 1880 - 568 pages
...my eyes. I well remember, how, having read half through the book, I tossed it from me, exclaiming, 'My soul is escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler,' and some of my then pupils, now in the ministry, will recollect the emphasis with which I repeated... | |
 | Philip Norton - 1885 - 156 pages
...very word " saved " is a word fringed with the gold of joy. If we can say with the Psalmist, " Our soul is escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler, the snare is broken and we are escaped "—if, that is, we confess ; our soul was ensnared with besetting... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1886 - 330 pages
...of old brown sherry were produced. I then said that the thing would be incomplete without a smoke, whereupon he brought a jar containing most of a pound...When the Professor ceased reading there were tears 1 3O WEAVER STEPHEN. in his large grey eyes, and there were tears in his voice as he said — " There... | |
 | William Constantine Beecher, Samuel Scoville, Mrs. H. W. Beecher - 1888 - 742 pages
...and when from impenetrable darkness the sun burst suddenly upon us. and peace came, we said : ' Our soul is escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler. The snare is broken and we are escaped.' " Across the water Napoleon was rallying from the disaster... | |
 | Gustav Gottheil - 1890 - 54 pages
...was kindled against us ; Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the streams had gone over our soul. Our soul is escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken and we are saved. When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like... | |
 | 1897 - 606 pages
...which bears as its device a net below and above a bird soaring upwards, and as its motto the words ' My soul is escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler.' We might quote innumerable occasions on which the use of the Psalms was strikingly associated with... | |
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