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- The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
- God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable…
- The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that…
- Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
- How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again,…
- I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame,…
- Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
- Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of…
- God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
- Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
- I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls…
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