 | 1834 - 1012 sider
...CHRISTIAN EXAMINER, AND of No. XXXIII. JULY, 1834. VOL. III. ON THE ELOQUENCE OF THE IRISH PULPIT. " I pay the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar...effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause." — COWPEB. IN these times, as usually happens in intervals of peace, attention has been much turned... | |
 | 1848 - 780 sider
...augmenting of that hallowed "Power" which the pulpit must possess, in order that it may ever - ncknowlpHged stand The most important and effectual guard. Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. On first opening the book, our eye chanced to light on a beautiful and well-deserved tribute to the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 sider
...last, Strutting and vapouring in an empty school, Spent all his force, and made no proselyte) — I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar...effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, His... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 sider
...it, fill'd With solemn awe, that bids me well beware With what intent I touch that holy thing,) I say the Pulpit— in the sober use . '.'.•(•>• Of...effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth ; there stands The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, His... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1835 - 266 sider
...work of grace. What Cowper says of the pulpit may be said of the Sabbath pulpit pre-eminently : I say the pulpit, in the sober use, Of its legitimate, peculiar...most important, and effectual, guard, Support, and ornaraeut, of virtue's cause. To the Sabbath then, should our thoughts, our prayers, our hopes, habitually... | |
 | Dorus Clarke - 1836 - 228 sider
...the world. The oft-repeated lines of Cowper have lost none of their truth ; — " The pulpit, I say the pulpit, in the sober use Of its legitimate peculiar...effectual guard, Support and ornament of virtue's cause.'' Regularly attend, then, my young friends, the public worship of God. Sanctify the Sabbath by resorting... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 sider
...Strutting and vapouring in an empty school, 330 Spent all his force, and made no proselyte ;) I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate peculiar...shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, 335 Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth. There stands The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 sider
...Strutting and vapouring in an empty school, 330 Spent all his force, and made no proselyte ;) I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate peculiar...shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, 335 Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth. There stands The... | |
 | Jasper Adams - 1837 - 532 sider
...exchange for his own. Cowper may be presumed to have had these advantages in mind when he said, — " The pulpit, in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar...effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause." * There are two points on which it merits an inquiry, whether the pulpit might not be made more effectual... | |
 | Levi Tucker - 1837 - 200 sider
...last, Strutting and vampering in an empty school, Spent all his force, and made no proselyte — I say, the pulpit, in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar...stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support aud ornament of virtue's cause." No sooner had infidelity assumed the reins of government in France,... | |
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I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support and ornament of virtue's cause. 
