 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Faith - 1852 - 492 pages
...hence it is, that Lord Bacon has remarked with so much truth and beauty : " Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought thee in fields and gardens ; but have found thee in thy temples." 10. — The Bible may be regarded as a sort... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1853 - 902 pages
...displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought...grace) hath been an unquenched coal upon thine altar. " 0 Lord, my strength ! I have since my youth met with thee in all my ways, by thy fatherly compassions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...appropriate, and sublimely expressed. There is no " natural theology " about them. " Thy creatures have been M A ] I II Fl Vm Me0ɸE What are the confessions of his frailty to man, compared with these ? " O Lord, my strength, I have,... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - Theology, Unitarian - 1854 - 448 pages
...book of salvation. " Thy creatures," said the greatest English philosopher in a prayer, " have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." Here are flowers of every hue and fragrance, fruits of every taste and nutriment. The sinner cannot... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1855 - 242 pages
...rain ; and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods Thy creatures have been my books, but Thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy temples." LORD BACON. CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND Co.; LONDON : GEORGE BELL. 1855. PREFACE AND DEDICATION.... | |
 | Theology - 1855 - 748 pages
...displeasure, but I have been as a dove free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more ; I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and groves, but 1 have found thee in thy temples. " Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousands my transgressions... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1855 - 434 pages
...my sins, and ten thousands ,•! ij my transgressions, but thy sanctifications have rejj ;j mained with me, and my heart, through thy grace, hath been an unquenched coal upon thine altar. ': j> "O Lord, my strength II have since my youth met with thee in all my ways, by thy fatherly comii... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...grace) hath been an unquenched coal upon thine altar. " 0 Lord, my strength ! I have since my youth met with thee in all my ways, by thy fatherly compassions,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 536 pages
...displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought...grace) hath been an unquenched coal upon thine altar. " 0 Lord, my strength ! I have since my youth met with thee in all my ways, by thy fatherly compassions,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Faith - 1856 - 500 pages
...hence it is, that Lord Bacon has remarked with so much truth and beauty : " Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought thee in fields and gardens ; but have found thee in thy temples." 10. — The Bible may be regarded as a sort... | |
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Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples. 
