 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 pages
...displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free Mm superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more* I have sought...fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy tern pies. No, 268.] 99 46 Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousands my transgressions, but thy... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...the sun almost to "go down upon my wrath." I have been prompt in forgiving. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in courts,1 fields, and gardens ; but I ha re found thee in thy temples. Taousands have been my sins,... | |
 | Bradford Kinney PEIRCE - Bible - 1868 - 236 pages
...Sir Francis Bacon, " have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have Bacon. sought thee in courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." " Let others," said John Milton, " dread and shun the Scriptures for their darkness ; I shall wish... | |
 | Bradford Kinney Peirce - Bible - 1868 - 236 pages
...eloquence, as well as of all good and all comfort." " Thy creatures," said Sir Francis Bacon, " have bceu my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." " Let others," said John Milton,... | |
 | Laurentine Hamilton - Bible - 1869 - 264 pages
...and which we record as his last testimony: " Thy creatures, O Lord, hare been my books, but thy holy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens ; but I have found thee, O God, in thy sanctuary— thy temples!" • 33. JOHN WELCH, the son-in-law of JOHN KNOX, was one of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 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...me, and my heart (through thy grace) hath been an uncjuenched coal upon thine altar. " 0 Lord, my strength ! I have since my youth met with thee in all... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...divisions of thy church : I have delighted in the brightness of thy sanctuary ... Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." And his last literary work was a " Translation of certain Psalms into English verse," which ho dedicated... | |
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - 1871 - 132 pages
...Sottrce of Theology. fTHHY creatures have been my books, but JL Thy Scriptures much more : I have Bought Thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy temples. I am persuaded, that if the choicest and best of those observations upon texts of Scripture which have... | |
 | Criticism - 1872 - 816 pages
...unite with the father of modern philosophy in the reverential meditation : '' Thy creatures have been my books, but Thy Scriptures much more, I have sought...and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy temples." "Let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a... | |
 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 pages
...rain, and that it might stretch its branches to the seas and to the floods. Thy creatures have been my books, but Thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...courts, fields and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy temple. The germ of Chalmers" celebrated sermou on the ' Expulsive power of a new affection," is thus... | |
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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. 
