Hallelujah: Or, Britain's Second Remembrancer; Bringing to Remembrance (in Praiseful and Penitential Hymns, Spiritual Songs, and Moral Odes,) Meditations, Advancing the Glory of God, in the Practice of Piety and Virtue |
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23rd Psalm 4th Psalm affections babe beget begun bestow blame blessed bliss blood body brought carnal cause Christ comfort Commandments common peace confess creatures dear death delight desire despise didst divine doth duties earth ease evermore eyes faith favour fear flesh foes forbear to weep fruit George Wither give God's gracious grief grieve Hallelujah hath heart heed helper honour hope keep King labour lest let Thy likewise live Lord Lord's Prayer Magnificat marriage means meditations mind mischief needful things offence otherwhile pain painted skin passions peace pleasure pow'r praise Thee pray preserve prove remember shun sickness Sing sins sleep sleep at last snares song sorrow soul sweet baby Te Deum Ten Commandments thankful thereby Thine things Thou art Thou dost Thou hast thought Thy grace Thy love Thy name Thy praise Thy Word tongue torments true unto Vouchsafe Whilst womb
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Page x - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 69 - Thou hast (yet more), to perfect this, A promise and an earnest got Of gaining everlasting bliss, Though thou, my babe, perceiv'st it not. Sweet baby, then, forbear to weep ; Be still, my babe ; sweet baby, sleep.
Page ix - Angels and supernal powers, Be the noblest tenor yours : Let, in praise of God, the sound Run a never-ending round, That our song of praise may be Everlasting, as is He.
Page 33 - Sweet baby, sleep ! what ails my dear, What ails my darling thus to cry ? Be still, my child, and lend thine ear, To hear me sing thy lullaby. My pretty lamb, forbear to weep ; Be still, my dear ; sweet baby, sleep. Thou blessed soul, what canst thou fear ? What thing to thee can mischief do ? Thy God is now thy Father dear, His holy Spouse, thy mother too. Sweet baby, then forbear to weep ; Be still, my babe ; sweet baby, sleep.
Page x - And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page ix - Let those things which do not live, In still music praises give ; Lowly pipe, ye worms that creep, On the earth, or in the deep ; Loud aloft your voices strain, Beasts and monsters of the main ; Birds, your warbling treble sing ; Clouds, your peals of thunders ring ; Sun and moon, exalted higher, And bright stars, augment the choir.
Page 314 - As this my carnal robe grows old, Soil'd, rent, and worn by length of years, Let me on that by faith lay hold Which man in life immortal wears : So sanctify my days behind, So let my manners be refined, That when my soul and flesh must part, There lurk no terrors in my heart.
Page vi - He sang of God — the mighty source Of all things — the stupendous force On which all strength depends; From Whose right arm, beneath Whose eyes, All period, power, and enterprise Commences, reigns, and ends.
Page x - Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
Page 295 - Lord ! keep me faithful to the trust Which my dear spouse reposed in me, To him now dead preserve me just In all that should performed be ; For though our being man and wife Extendeth only to this life, Yet neither life nor death should end The being of a faithful friend.