 | 1833 - 256 pàgines
...return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate the sins that made the mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. , 6 So shall my walk be close with God ; Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1833 - 684 pàgines
...return, Sweet messenger of rest ! I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 6 So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | 1833 - 548 pàgines
...Sweet messenger of rest : I hate the sins that made tliee raottrn. And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 6 So »hall my walk be close with God, Calm ami eerene my frame : So purer light shall murk ihe road... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pàgines
...it was. Let us therefore search, and try our ways, and resolve to act faithfully by the discovery. " The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...Help me to tear it from thy Throne, And worship only thec. So shall my w;ilk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1833 - 284 pàgines
...sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, UWhate'er that idol be, / Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 6 So shall my walk be close with God ; Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | 1842 - 676 pàgines
...stranger and a pilgrim, who seeks a city yet to come. 1 The dearest idnl I have known, Whate'er thai idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only THEE.' "Resolved, that it shall be my prayerful endeavor, so to aspire after holiness, and a constantly increasing... | |
 | William Barclay - 1976 - 224 pàgines
...down his house upon the head of his wife and children; yet, thought I, I must do it, I must do it." "The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee." Abraham was the man who would sacrifice even the dearest thing in life for God. Time and again in the... | |
 | John R. Rice - 1980 - 340 pàgines
...tabu that made Thee mourn, And drove Thee from my breast The dearest Idol I have known, Whate'er mat idol be, Help me to tear it from Thy throne, And worship only Thee. Maybe you loudly insist, "I don't see any harm in the theater." Perhaps you repeatedly say, There is... | |
 | Ranjit Chatterjee, Colin Nicholson - 1984 - 408 pàgines
...and return, he continues by confessing the sin of idolatry: The dearest Idol I have known, Whate'ver that Idol be, Help me to tear it from Thy Throne, And worship Only Thee (140). This stanza probably refers to Cowper's own life. When he wrote this hymn, his beloved Mary... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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. 
