| Edward Edwards (of Marsden.) - 1837 - 170 pàgines
...repentance, may appear. — still, the minister of Christ must labour and hope unto the end : '' For while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return." I found the object of my visit confined to • Is. lix. 1. her bed, greatly reduced, and exhibiting... | |
| George Rogers - 1837 - 204 pàgines
...the sun of divine mercy ; much the most of christians are of the opinion of the poet, that, " Whilst the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may return." But the philosophy is weak, and the theology false in either case ; for how in the name of both can God's... | |
| 1838 - 492 pàgines
...truth themselves, and for giving occasion to their children and others to speak evil of it. But, •' While the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return." While there is life, there is hope ; and oh that a gleam of heavenly mercy may dispel the gloom that... | |
| Joseph A. Cotton - 1838 - 152 pàgines
...eternity. Eccles. ix. 4, &c. ILlFE is the time to serve the Lord, The time to ensure the great reward; And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return. 2. Life is the hour that God hath giv'n, To 'scape from hell and fly to heaven; The day of grace, and... | |
| Edward Davies (of Kingswinford) - 1839 - 296 pàgines
...it with thy might.'' 1 LIFE is the time to serve the Lord, The time to insure the great reward ; And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return. 2 Life is the hour that God has given To escape from hell and fly to heaven ; The day of grace, and... | |
| 1839 - 442 pàgines
...Woe is me, for I am lost ! — lost — for ever lost !" What a mercy you are not lost yet ! for " While the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return." That excellent man, whose death calls us to these thoughts, was once an inconsiderate sinner, such... | |
| General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States - 1839 - 558 pàgines
...4, 5, 6, 10. 1 T IFE is the time to serve the Lord, -•-^ The time t' ensure the great reward; And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return. 2 Life is the hour that God has given To 'scape from hell, and fly to heaven; The day of grace, and... | |
| T. H. Hudson - 1839 - 338 pàgines
...which shall it be f" " Life is the time to serve the Lord, The time t' insure the great reward ; And while the lamp holds out to burn. The vilest sinner may return. Life is the hour which God hath given To 'scape from hell, and fly to heaven : The day of grace, and... | |
| 1840 - 498 pàgines
...Day of Grace. L. M, 1 Life is the time to serve the Lord, The time t' insure the great reward ; And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return. 2 Life is the hour that God has given To escape from hell, and fly to heaven; The day of grace, and... | |
| Benjamin B. Hallock - 1840 - 108 pàgines
...are laid on the shoulders of another " to ward off the edge." No more would it then be said, " But while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return," as a kind of assurance that sin may be indulged in to. the last, and justice be robbed of its claims.... | |
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