 | English gentlewoman - 1861 - 328 pages
...thoughts. " I am meditating," replied Hooker, " the number and nature of the angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which peace could not be in heaven : and oh ! that it might be so on earth !" — "I have lived," he resumed, after a pause, " to see this world is made up of perturbations,... | |
 | James Frederick Todd - 1864 - 332 pages
..."perturbations" of which "this world is made up," on "the number and nature of angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which peace could not be in heaven," and to have exclaimed, "Oh ! that it might be so on earth !" Doubtless it would be far better, and more... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 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... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - Christian life - 1866 - 248 pages
...deathbed, Bichard Hooker remarked : " I am 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!" "Now, angels," said an early pastor of New England, when dying, "now,... | |
 | Catherine A. M. BROUGHAM - 1869 - 324 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 ! ' We can fancy this Collect to be the very breathing of his soul at that time ; he who... | |
 | 1869 - 612 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.' "l The subject which occupied the thoughts of the dying saint, should occupy ours who... | |
 | 1869 - 400 pages
...his thoughts, 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 ! " After which words he said, " I have lived to see this world is made... | |
 | William Townsend Henham - 1869 - 212 pages
...his thoughts. 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." Yes: he who had consecrated the valuable labours of his life by performing... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1870 - 372 pages
...revolving the origin of the soul, Hooker "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 !" — all these details bring together, at the distance of so many ages, the two great... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1870 - 550 pages
...present thoughts, 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 ! " There is not, affirms a modern divine, a corner of the world, nor a process of nature,... | |
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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,... 
