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adore alaſs almoſt alſo amiable beatific Beauty becauſe behold Bleffings bleſſed JESUS Bliſs blooming Breath Cauſe Charms chearing CHRIST Chriſtian Circumſtance cloathed Confideration Creatures Darkneſs Death Defire delightful deſcribed Deſign diftinguiſhed diſplay Divine Earth eternal everlasting exalted expreſſed facred Faith fame feems filent finiſhed firſt flain Fleſh Flowers fome foon fuch fure Glory Grace Hand Heart Heaven Himſelf holy Honour Houſes incircled inſpired itſelf laſt leſs loft LORD Love Luftre Maſter moſt muſt myſelf Nature neſs Number obſerve ourſelves Paffions paſs Paſſage perfect Perſon pleaſing Pleaſure preſent raiſe Redeemer rich Righteouſneſs riſe ſay ſcarce ſee ſeem Senſe ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhining ſhort ſhould Skies ſome Soul ſpeak Spect Spirit ſplendid ſpread ſtand ſtately ſtill ſtrong ſuch Taſte thee themſelves theſe Things thoſe thouſand tion tranfient tranſporting Univerſe unto uſe vaſt viſible Viſit whole whoſe Wings World
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Page 25 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Page 149 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 98 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 157 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Page 44 - It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Page 57 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Page 156 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Page 243 - What, though In solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though nor real voice nor sound, Amid their radiant orbs be found ? In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice ; For ever singing, as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 178 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 143 - Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy : his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire...