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" I will labour to make it honourable, by consecrating all my learning, and all my poor abilities, to advance the glory of that God that gave them ; knowing that I can never do too much for him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And... "
The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue - Page 21
by George Herbert - 1709
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A Brief Account of Thirty Years of Missionary Work of the Church Mission ...

R. C. (Robert Clark) - Missions - 1883 - 282 pages
...much for Him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." Time was when the great and the noble men of the highest birth thought it their greatest honor...
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History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the ...

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 434 pages
...all my poor abilities to advance the glory of that God that gave them, and I will labour to be like my Saviour by making humility lovely in the eyes of...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." Nevertheless, Herbert hesitated long. He was still a layman when Williams presented him to...
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Pastoral Theology

James Mason Hoppin - Church group work - 1884 - 608 pages
...much for Him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian ; and I zvill labor to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." We will not go into a minute analysis of those qualities of character and action in which a...
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The Poems of George Herbert: To which are Added Selections from His Prose ...

George Herbert - Literature - 1885 - 370 pages
...much for Him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." but that he was about that time made deacon is most certain ; for I find by the records of...
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The Punjab and Sindh missions of the Church missionary society

Robert Clark - 1885 - 412 pages
...much for Him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." Time was when great and noble men of the highest birth thought it their greatest honour to...
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History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak ..., Volume 7

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1886 - 414 pages
...all my poor abilities to advance the glory of that God that gave them, and I will labour to be like my Saviour by making humility lovely in the eyes of...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." Nevertheless, Herbert hesitated long. He was still a layman when Williams presented him to...
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Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert

Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...much for Him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." This was then his resolution, and the God of constancy, Who intended him for a great example...
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Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George ...

Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...much for Him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." This was then his resolution, and the God of constancy, Who intended him for a great example...
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The Cambrian, Volumes 10-11

Welsh - 1890 - 830 pages
...behalf by entering the Christian ministry. " And," such was his resolve, " I will labor to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." In his poem entitled " Affliction," he has thus told the story of this great change : "At first...
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The Life of George Herbert of Bemerton ...

1893 - 352 pages
...too much for Him that has done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes...following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus." Immediately upon this act of devout re-consecration, and this second self-surrender, came the...
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