 The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 220edited by - 1825Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. "The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving. Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, inTariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the roost joyful of... | |
 | John Wilson - 1852 - 328 pages
...invested bv fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, though the most joyful of all holy ellusions, 3-et addressed to a Being without passions, is confined...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
 | John Wilson - 1852 - 336 pages
...tupplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, though the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions, confined to a few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication... | |
 | James Montgomery, John Holland - 1854 - 536 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, though the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions, is confined... | |
 | James Montgomery, John Holland - 1854 - 468 pages
...supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, though the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions, is confined to few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Judge,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 342 pages
...they were self-evident truths, more and more repuNive alike to our feelings and our understandings. "The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invented by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, though the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 456 pages
...they were self-evident truths, more and more repulsive alike to our feelings and our understandings. " The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...invested by fancy with decorations.. Thanksgiving, though the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being superior to us, is confined... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 460 pages
...they were self-evident truths, more and more repulsive alike to our feelings and our understandings. " The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, though the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being superior to us, is confined... | |
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