The Christian's Sunday companion; being reflections in prose and verse on the Collect, Epistle and Gospel, and proper lessons, for each Sunday |
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... light , now in the time of this mortal life , in which Thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility ; that in the last day , when He shall come again in His glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead , we may rise ...
... light , now in the time of this mortal life , in which Thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility ; that in the last day , when He shall come again in His glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead , we may rise ...
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... light of divine knowledge — is at hand . As , therefore , we pray in the Collect to be enlightened by the word of God , and enabled by his grace to lead a godly life , it becomes a duty to study with increased attention and earnestness ...
... light of divine knowledge — is at hand . As , therefore , we pray in the Collect to be enlightened by the word of God , and enabled by his grace to lead a godly life , it becomes a duty to study with increased attention and earnestness ...
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... grace unite . " Arouse ! " the Church repeats her cry , " Arouse ! " the woods and vales reply , The Lord our God himself is nigh- Jehovah , Lord and Light . SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT . Morning Lesson , Isaiah v FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT . 7.
... grace unite . " Arouse ! " the Church repeats her cry , " Arouse ! " the woods and vales reply , The Lord our God himself is nigh- Jehovah , Lord and Light . SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT . Morning Lesson , Isaiah v FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT . 7.
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... light first sprang up by the divine word , so also must light from the same divine source dawn upon our souls , and draw them out of darkness and error . Christ is equally the author of light in the spiritual as in the material world ...
... light first sprang up by the divine word , so also must light from the same divine source dawn upon our souls , and draw them out of darkness and error . Christ is equally the author of light in the spiritual as in the material world ...
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... light air with sounds of joy and love ; Nor gentle showers from fleecy clouds distilling , Spread the gay smile on earth that glows above . The year has found its grave , and cold is sleeping Beneath its shroud of newly fallen snow ...
... light air with sounds of joy and love ; Nor gentle showers from fleecy clouds distilling , Spread the gay smile on earth that glows above . The year has found its grave , and cold is sleeping Beneath its shroud of newly fallen snow ...
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Page 184 - SON JESUS CHRIST, hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life ; we humbly beseech Thee, that, as by Thy special grace preventing us, Thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by Thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect...
Page 81 - Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool : where is the house that ye build unto me ? and where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made...
Page 301 - GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 394 - STIR up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people : that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 397 - Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Page 5 - Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Page 268 - LORD, we beseech thee mercifully to hear us; and grant that we, to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray, may, by thy mighty aid, be defended and comforted in all dangers and adversities, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.
Page 344 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 213 - O ALMIGHTY GOD, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.
Page 119 - WE beseech thee, Almighty God, look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants, and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty, to be our defence against all our enemies; through Jesus Christ our Lord.