 | 1851 - 702 pàgines
...eternity, will add convincing and irresistible force to its paramount claims, to the end of time ; for The pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar...effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. ART. VH.— SIR THOMAS BROWNE. The Complete Workt of Sir Thomtu Browne, collected and edited, vnth... | |
 | 1907 - 1038 pàgines
...institution of Christianity and the preacher is the voice of God to a sinning world. As Cowper wrote : "I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar...while the world shall stand, The most important and effective guard, Support and ornament of virtue's cause." But many ministers give less attention to... | |
 | 1823 - 498 pàgines
...suited to his high and holy office. Yes, he will tell you that , "the pulpit Must stand acknowledg'd while the world shall stand, The most important and...effectual guard, Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause." " In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar,... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - 1913 - 1144 pàgines
...honorable order. As a minister of the gospel he exemplified the beautiful description of the poet: "his theme divine His office sacred, his credentials clear, By him the violated law spoke out Its thunders; and by him in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispered peace."... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - 1913 - 1142 pàgines
...honorable order. As a minister of the gospel he exemplified the beautiful description of the poet: "his theme divine His office sacred, his credentials clear, By him the violated law spoke out Its thunders; and by him in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispered peace."... | |
 | James Bruce Earl of Elgin, Public Archives of Canada - 1937 - 422 pàgines
...support of religion, in the minds of many of his majesty's faithful subjects in the Canadas. "The pulpit Must stand acknowledged while the world shall stand,...divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear, I would express him, simple, grave, sincere, In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1867 - 428 pàgines
...touch that holy thing' I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar power) Must suind acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most...effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. Then- stands the messenger of truth -, there stands The legate of the skies ; — his theme divine,... | |
 | R. Kent Hughes, Barbara Hughes - 1988 - 212 pàgines
...and grow in grace and power as a gospel preacher." 4 William Cowper the hymn writer wrote similarly: There stands the messenger of truth: there stands The legate of the skies—His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks... | |
 | William Hone - 2003 - 476 pàgines
...-"The pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate peculiar pow'rs) Must stand acknowledged, while iht- world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. * * * * Behold the picture! Is it like?"22 THIS IS A PRIEST, Who, on being ordain'd, vow'd, by rote,... | |
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I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. 
