Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears: The Triumphs Over Death; and An Epistle of Comfort

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Keating, 1822 - 199 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 25 - Jesus, turning unto them, said, daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves, and for your children.
Pàgina 34 - Oh ! who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes, that, night and day, I may bewail my sins!
Pàgina 178 - For some persons, at the first, had rather die than be unchaste or perjured; and 'greater love than this no man hath, that he lay down his life...
Pàgina 136 - He that taketh not up his cross and followeth me, cannot be my disciple."* Assuredly such words were well calculated to alienate all who were not prepared to enrol under this banner of renunciation. And yet, if there was one lowly and willing heart, one sorrowful soul needing consolation, how could it resist such an appeal as this,
Pàgina 96 - But having sent her desires to heaven before with a mild countenance, and a most calm mind, in more hope than fear, she expected her own passage, she commended both her duty and goodwill to all her friends, and cleared her heart from all grudge towards her enemies, wishing true happiness to them both, as best became so soft and gentle a mind", in which anger never stayed but as an unwelcome stranger.
Pàgina 134 - Stephen was stoned, he saw the heavens opened, and Christ standing at the right hand of his father.
Pàgina 155 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
Pàgina 69 - Penitent tears are sweetened by grace, and rendered more purely beautiful by returning innocence. It is the dew of devotion., which the sun of justice draweth up; and " upon what face soever it falleth, it maketh it amiable in the eye of God.
Pàgina 94 - Of the innocency of her life this general all can aver, that as she was grateful many ways, and memorable for virtues, so was she free from all blemish of any vice, using, to her power, the best means to keep continually an undefiled conscience. Her attire was ever such as might both satisfy a curious eye, and yet bear witness of a sober mind; neither singular nor vain, but such as her peers of least report used.
Pàgina 96 - In sum, she was an honour to her predecessors, a light to her age, and a pattern to her posterity...

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