| George Townsend - 1827 - 722 pages
...his brother, with a crowd of angelic spirits, the anxious witnesses of our thoughts and actions.' " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep :" and it Is only the fragile veil of this body that prevents us from distinguishing them; as... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1826 - 420 pages
...any part of this, by our sight, than by our feeling. Should we allow, with the ancient poet, that " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep ;" Should we allow, that the great Spirit, "the Father of all, filleth both heaven and earth... | |
| Henry Hunter - Bible - 1828 - 356 pages
...fair consort — " Nor think-, tho' men were none, That heaven would want spectators. God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night." If our ears were not... | |
| Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...about it, and was himself poetically a Swedenborgian, makes father Adam say to Eve, not only that, ' Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep,' but also, ' How often from the ateep Ofechoing hill, or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...not in vain ; nor think, though men were none. That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise ; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Uotli day and night. How often, from the steep... | |
| William Ellis - Ethnology - 1829 - 610 pages
...all the spells of enchantment were thrown over its varied scenes. The sentiment of the poet that— " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep," was one familiar to their minds; and it is impossible not to feel interested in a people who... | |
| Alexander Crombie - English language - 1830 - 490 pages
...denominates the tenses definite or indefinite, not in respect to action, but to time. When, in the passage from Milton, " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep," he considers " walk" as indefinite, is it in regard to action ? No. " It is," says he, " because... | |
| Baptists - 1830 - 602 pages
...fountain of our spiritual existence. What know we of the powers, or the extent of this mighty host? " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep." Verily there is no isolated spot in the creation, on which the human spirit can stand clear... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep... | |
| Robert Montgomery - Devil - 1830 - 414 pages
...are drawn from the true and only authority for such matters, — The Bible. ON GOOD AND EVIL ANGELS. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. MILTON, Par. Lost, n. 4th, 1. 677. EXTRACTS FROM THE Fathers of the Christian Church. "Let us... | |
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