 | John Jebb - Church music - 1843 - 600 pages
...meditations of one of God's most eminent saints ', "the number and nature of Angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which peace could not be in Heaven :" and as to their eucharistic services we are in part instructed by the words of prophecy. Thus much may... | |
 | Present - Christian literature - 1843 - 236 pages
...; to which he replied, " that he was meditating the number and nature of angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which, peace could not be in heaven ; and O that it might be so on earth !" His last words were, " I could wish to live to do the Church more... | |
 | 1844 - 772 pages
...discourse,' at his hour of death ' was meditating the number and nature of angele, and their blessed obedience and order, without which peace could not be in Heaven ; and oh ! that it might be so on earth ;' yet when th« Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in Ken's 'Directions for Prayer,'... | |
 | 1844 - 320 pages
...: to which he replied, " That he was meditating the number and nature of angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without •which peace could not be in heaven ; and oh, that it might be so on earth!" After which words he said, "I have lived to see this world is full of perturbations,... | |
 | Christianity - 1844 - 776 pages
...discourse,' at his hour of death ' was meditating the number and nature of angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which peace could not be in Heaven ; and oh ! that it might he so on earth ;' yet when the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, iu Ken's ' Directions for... | |
 | Religion - 1844 - 484 pages
...worthy of a spirit yearmng unto its God. He was found to be musing upon "the nature of angels, their obedience and order, without •which peace could not be in heaven;" and he added, " Oh, that it might be upon earth!" The following most edifying passage has often been quoted:... | |
 | William James - 1845 - 894 pages
...thoughts; to which he replied, "That he was meditating the number and nature of angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which, peace could not be in heaven ; and, oh! that it might be so on earth!" After which words he said, " I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations,... | |
 | George Smith Drew - 1845 - 172 pages
...his thoughts. He said, that " he was meditating on the number and nature of angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which peace could not be in heaven ; and, oh ! that it might be so on earth." Soon after saying this he died 4. Surely thoughts which occupied the mind of such a man,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...is said to have replied, " That be was meditating the number and nature of angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which peace could not be in heaven : and eh ! that it might be so on earth." His last recorded words also prove the direction of his thoughts,... | |
 | A. B., Lectures - 1846 - 100 pages
...meditations, he replied, " that he was meditating the number and nature of Angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which, peace, could not be in Heaven ; and Oh ! that it might be so on earth." Such were that holy man's thoughts of the Kingdom of Rest and Glory, to which he was... | |
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... deep in contemplation, and not inclinable to discourse; which gave the Doctor occasion to require his present thoughts. To which he replied 'That he was meditating the number and nature of Angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which,... 
