The English Review, Volume 11

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Francis and John Rivington, 1846
 

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Page 272 - earnestly in private to that God who can see what you cannot see, and urge the humble avowal and petition of the Psalmist: ' Who can understand his errors ? cleanse thou me from secret faults ! for thou hast | set our iniquities before thee; our secret sins in the light of
Page 431 - adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed, and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God; the baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained in the Church, as most agreeable
Page 427 - I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord. For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Page 386 - white mule She rode with round the terrace,—all and each Would draw from her, alike, the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thank'd men,—good ; but thank'd Somehow, . . I know not how, . . as if she rank'd My gift of a nine hundred years' old name With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop
Page 386 - on, and her looks went every where.— Sir, 'twas all one! My favour at her breast, The dropping of the daylight in the west, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her,—the white mule She rode with round the
Page 388 - fight from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen, He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves." "The Flower's Name" is a soft fanciful soliloquy, in lyric form, spoken by a lover, who recounts how his mistress visited his garden.
Page 504 - William, King of Prussia, Thy servant, to favour Thy Church, and protect Thy people in this land, vouchsafe, we beseech Thee, to replenish him with the Grace of Thy Holy Spirit, that he may always incline to Thy will, and walk in Thy way. Endue him plenteously with
Page 388 - him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye ; Learn'd his great language, caught his clear accents; Made him our pattern to live and to die! Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us ; Burns, Shelley, were with us,—they
Page 431 - Baptism is a sign of regeneration or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly, are grafted into the Church, the promises of forgiveness of sin, and
Page 20 - sky is red and lowering. 0 ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky ; but can ye not discern the signs of the times ?

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