The Baptistery, or, The way of eternal life (1842) (14597327909)

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Title: The Baptistery, or, The way of eternal life
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Williams, Isaac, 1802-1865 Bolswert, Boetius a, 1580-1633?
Subjects: Christian poetry, English Meditations Christian life
Publisher: Oxford : John Henry Parker
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library



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s and the glareSpeak the pit of lone despair. ,nr QBE I r m will-1 LTION. 295 When the Church released from wrongs,On her Heavenward archway throngs,Crownd with everlasting songs. When their task for ever done. Earth gone by, and glory won,Saints shall pass into the Sun. As our thoughts the theme pursueStill the portrait comes to view,But how feeble to the true! Lord, in this Thy mercys day, Ere it pass for aye away, On our knees we fall and pray. Holy Jesu, grant me tears, Fill me with heart-searching fears, Ere that awful doom appears. Supplication on us pour, Let us now knock at the door, Ere it close for evermore. By Thy night of agony,By Thy supplicating cry,Bv Thv willingness to die, 298 THE DAY OF DAYS. &C. By Thy tears of bitter woe For Jerusalem below, Let us not Thy loYe forego. Xeath Thy wings let us haYe place,Lest we lose this day of grace,Ere we shall behold Thy face. Love of God shall stand alone,And that love it shall be known,By the deeds that we haYe done. XXIII.
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IMAGE THE TWENTY-THIRD. fts a tivop of fontcr unto tljr sea, ant) a gvabdstonc in compari-son of tj)c sant) ; So arc a tfjousant) gear* to tfje cans of ctcrnttn. Before all things consider Eternity (A), and how the Saints inHeaven and the wicked in Hell now wish that they had moreearnestly followed after holiness. O how long is Eternity ! Thoumayest reckon up the atoms of the sand on the shore (B), thoumayest count the drops of water in the sea (C), more easily thanthou wilt number the years of Eternity. Where the Tree shallonce have fallen (D), whether it be toward the South, or towardthe North, there shall it for ever remain : nor beyond that willthere be any more Time (E), nor Occasion (F), nor Death (G),excepting Death eternal. Behold, how even one Sin shutteth manup in Hell (H). Oh, how much would he that is for ever lostnow give, if he could purchase but one little hour (I) in which hemight repent! But it is now all in vain, and he is derided by theevil spirit that deceived him