 | Paul King Jewett, Marguerite Shuster - 1991 - 562 pàgines
...stone, therefore we can never be guilty of idolatry. Cowper was right in teaching the church to sing, The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. Mammon is the god of many in our modern capitalist world, and many have said to mammon: "Deliver me,... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - 1991 - 572 pàgines
...190); and accumulations* of superlatives or of such excluding expressions as 'only' or 'the only.' Ex: The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from Thy throne, And worship only thee. W. Cowper, Onley Hymns, 1 The ultimate expedient is to denounce the inadequacy of language. Ex: Through... | |
 | Glenn C. Wilcox - 1993 - 366 pàgines
...Return, oh holy Dove I return. Sweet messenger of rest I 1 bate the sins that made the* mourn. And drove thee from my breast. 5. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that iilol be. Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thce. 8. So f hall my walk be close... | |
 | Bertus Frederick Polman, Marilyn Kay Stulken, James Rawlings Sydnor - 1994 - 328 pàgines
...return, Sweet messenger of rest; 1 hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That... | |
 | Bertus Frederick Polman, Marilyn Kay Stulken, James Rawlings Sydnor - 1994 - 328 pàgines
...return, Sweet messenger of rest; 1 hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That... | |
 | William J. Petersen, Randy Petersen - 1995 - 772 pàgines
...the sins that made Thee mourn And drove Thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have known. What e'er that idol be. Help me to tear it from Thy throne And worship only Thee. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That... | |
 | Wayne E. Oates - 1996 - 124 pàgines
...stuff of the life of faith of which William Cowper wrote in his hymn O for a Closer Walk with God: The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from Thy throne, And worship only Thee. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pàgines
...once enjoy'd"; "I hate the sins that made thee mourn," he laments to the Holy Spirit, and concludes: The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 1 1 1 Black was the deed. most Black. The "deed" entails a dead dad. In Poetical Sketches the word... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 pàgines
...interpretation of Isaiah 2:20 appears in a verse of William Cowper's famous hymn Ofor a closer walk with God: The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only Thee.64 MofTatt, Handbook, pp. See below, pp. 1 64 CH 457; EH 445. MofTatt, Handbook, p. 156. lro^... | |
 | J. Gerald Janzen - 1997 - 292 pàgines
...of William Cowper's hymn "O for a Closer Walk with God" are still integral to contemporary worship: "The dearest idol I have known, / Whate'er that idol...tear it from thy throne, / And worship only thee." Second Commandment (w. 4-6) This commandment comes in two parts (the double "you shall not"), which... | |
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So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road, That leads me to the Lamb. 
