 | Saint Robert Southwell - 1822 - 228 pàgines
...complaint, (hat by yielding they overcome, and by fentreating they command. They can chain the tongues of all accusers, and soften the rigour of the severest...love, purchased his pardon, and proved the spring of all thy favours. — .Thy tears were the procurers of thy brother's life, the inviters of those angels... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 412 pàgines
...had years before them, the Church held out every encouragement. " Penitent tears," said Southwell, " are sweetened by grace, and rendered more purely beautiful...falleth, it maketh it amiable in the eye of God." What a scene must it have been to see Abelard die in the priory of St. Marcel at Chalons, in his 63d... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 416 pàgines
...had years before them, the Church held out every encouragement. " Penitent tears," said Southwell, " are sweetened by grace, and rendered more purely beautiful...falleth, it maketh it amiable in the eye of God." What a scene must it have been to see Abelard die in the priory of St. Marcel at Chalons, in his 63d... | |
 | 1856 - 678 pàgines
...the purest colour of returnin" innoeency highly beautifieth. This dew of devotion never faileth, but the sun of justice draweth up, and upon what face soever it droppeth, it maketh it amiable in GOD'S eye. For this water hath thy heart been long an alembick sometimes... | |
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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. 