 | Isaac Watts - 1836 - 758 páginas
...word ? — 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their mem'ry still ! e But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. — 4 Return,...walk, be close with God, — Calm and serene my frame ; o And purer light shall mark the road, That leads me to the Lamb. Coicper. HYMN 68. CM Abridge. [*]... | |
 | Thomas Hastings - 1836 - 638 páginas
...The world can never fill. 4 Return, O Holy Dove, return, Sweet Messenger of rest: ag I hate the SIBS that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast....to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. d 5 So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | William Cogswell - 1836 - 380 páginas
...and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their mem'ry still! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return,...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be — Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 394 páginas
...enjoy'd ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | William Barclay - 1976 - 224 páginas
...down his house upon the head of his wife and children; yet, thought I, I must do it, I must do it." "The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee." Abraham was the man who would sacrifice even the dearest thing in life for God. Time and again in the... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 páginas
...enjoyd,/ How sweet their Mem'ry still!/ But they have left an Aching Void/ The World can never fill. Return, O Holy Dove, Return,/ Sweet Messenger of Rest,/...that made thee mourn/ And drove thee from my Breast. ... ^ I y* * »y # ""* ""^ V '.t/ ^ / ^ ' *' y %U i ^ *, N Ni V? J ^ o; V V ^x^ s .rt ^ 4^ N > , 3... | |
 | Ranjit Chatterjee, Colin Nicholson - 1984 - 408 páginas
...the "peacefull Hours" have actively and deliberately left misery for him. He continues: Return, oh Holy Dove, Return, Sweet Messenger of Rest, I hate...that made thee mourn And drove thee from my Breast. He is suggesting here that God is no longer with him and he desires His return. Instead of seeing God... | |
 | Paul S. Fiddes - 1989 - 256 páginas
...laments in one of his frequent bouts of depression, 'Where is the blessedness I knew?' and pleads: Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest!...that made thee mourn And drove thee from my breast. A further reason for the sense of desertion in suffering is no doubt the failure of expectations that... | |
 | Canterbury Press - 1989 - 540 páginas
...walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! 2 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest;...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 3 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | Paul King Jewett, Marguerite Shuster - 1991 - 562 páginas
...stone, therefore we can never be guilty of idolatry. Cowper was right in teaching the church to sing, The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. Mammon is the god of many in our modern capitalist world, and many have said to mammon: "Deliver me,... | |
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So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb. 
