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Items of Interest: Wisdom and Grace

July 23, 2009

But oh! thy Wisdom, Lord! thy Grace! thy Praise! Open mine Eyes to see the same aright. Take off their film, my Sins, and let the Rayes Of thy bright Glory on my peepholes light. I fain would love and better love thee should, If ‘fore me thou thy Loveliness unfold. Edward Taylor Meditation 35 [...]

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Items of Interest: The Joy of the Gospel

June 22, 2009

The sweetest joys and delights I have experienced, have not been those that have arisen from a hope of my own good estate; but in a direct view of the glorious things of the gospel. When I enjoy this sweetness, it seems to carry me above the thoughts of my own safe estate. It seems [...]

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Items of Interest: To Entertain Such Imaginations

June 4, 2009

There were some who dared in the opinion of the multitude to immortalize themselves; and notwithstanding that the very sense of sight bore witness to their mortality, were ambitious to be called gods, and were honoured as such; to what a length of impiety would not many men have proceeded, if death had not gone [...]

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Items of Interest: The Love of God

May 19, 2009

Wilt thou love God as he thee? then digest, My soul, this wholesome meditation, How God the Spirit, by angels waited on In heaven, doth make His temple in thy breast. The Father having begot a Son most blest, And still begetting—for he ne’er begun— Hath deign’d to choose thee by adoption, Co-heir to His [...]

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Items of Interest: The “Thinking Reed”

May 4, 2009

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler [...]

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Items of Interest: God Our Refuge

April 23, 2009

Let every man and woman among us, whether meeting together at church, or remaining at home, call upon God with much earnestness, and He will doubtless accede to these petitions. Whence does this appear evident? Because He is exceedingly desirous, that we should always take refuge in Him, and in everything make our requests unto [...]

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