 The soul of a true Christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year, low and humble, on the ground; opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing, as...  The Eclectic Review - Page 734edited by - 1852Full view - About this book
 | John Bunyan - 1877 - 324 pages
...there writ(p) The Valley of Humiliation. — "The soul of a trne Christian, writes Jonathan Edwards, "appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humMe on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing,... | |
 | David Thomas - 1877 - 492 pages
...Humility." A proud Christian is a solecism. Jonathan Edwards describes a Christian as being such a " little flower as we see in the spring of the year, low and humble in the ground, opening its bosom for the beams of the sun, rejoicing in a calm rapture, suffusing around... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1878 - 190 pages
...the very words used by Edwards, in a meditation, and say — " The soul of a true Christian appears like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year, — low and humble on the ground, — opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory ; rejoicing, as it were, in... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1878 - 264 pages
...dogma." I should not admit quite that Jonathan Edwards, who spoke of "the soul of a true Christian as such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year, low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory, rejoicing, as it were, in a calm... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1878 - 378 pages
...dogma." I should not admit quite that Jonathan Edwards, who spoke of " the soul of a true Christian as such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year, low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory, rejoicing, as it were, in a calm... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 168 pages
...dogma." I should not admit quite that Jonathan Edwards, who spoke of "the soul of a true Christian as such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year, low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory, rejoicing, as it were, in a calm... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 168 pages
...dogma." I should not admit quite that Jonathan Edwards, who spoke of ' ' the soul of a true Christian as such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year, low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory, rejoicing, as it were, in a calm... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1879 - 652 pages
...(107) — love of God must be supreme (108). 105. Child-likeness. — The soul of a true Christian appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year — low and numble on the ground — opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing,... | |
 | Ferdinand Piper, Henry Mitchell MacCracken - 1880 - 492 pages
...expressed by himself in these terms : " The soul of a true Christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see...spring of the year, low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory ; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm... | |
 | Alice Peloubet Norton - 1892 - 368 pages
...undisturbed; enjoying a sweet calm, and the gently vivifying beams of the sun. The soul of the true Christian appeared like such a little white flower, as we see...spring of the year, low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory ; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm... | |
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