Remains of the Late Rev. Charles Wolfe ...: With a Brief Memoir of His Life

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Hamilton, Adams, and Company, 1836 - 368 sider
 

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Side 24 - down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. Lightly they '11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the
Side 23 - him. IV. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, And
Side x - SERMON IV. MATTHEW, xiii. 44. The kingdom of Heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field ; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field
Side 345 - be tempted above that ye are able." Here, with our warning is our great consolation. It is not merely that God will assist us, but that he will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able. It is uttered in all the majesty of conscious omnipotence. " I will
Side 215 - the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. THIS is our Saviour's account of the kingdom of Heaven. The great body of mankind appear to differ with him in opinion. They do not seem to agree with him in either of the two points that he has here
Side 272 - in which it consists ? SERMON IX. LUKE, ix. 23. And he said to them all: if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. THESE are fearful words!
Side 24 - 11 talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the
Side 210 - How is it that his sufferings can create us anew ? By this one sacrifice he bore in his own person the punishment due to our sins. " He was wounded for our transgressions, he " was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of " our peace was upon him; and by his stripes we are " healed. All we, like sheep, had gone astray, we " turned every one to his own way;
Side 25 - And we heard by the distant and random gun, ' That the foe was suddenly firing:' " but it was originally written, ' And we heard the distant and random gun ' Of the enemy sullenly firing.'* * The writer of the above observation seems not to have been aware, that the fourth line of this stanza was at first
Side xii - an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them

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