 | Christian poets - 1851 - Страниц: 470
...securely tread ; Admonished, scorn the caution and the friend, Bent all on pleasure, heedless of its end : But He, who knew what human hearts would prove, How...life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls His grace designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Called for a cloud to darken all... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1851 - Страниц: 964
...lead them to say, " This is my rest, here will I dwell, for I have desired it;" and therefore— " He who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow...life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Called for a cloud to darken all... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - Страниц: 620
...securely tread, Admonished, scorn the caution and the friend, Bent all on pleasure, heedless of its end. ncott, Grambo & Co. stilt, In pity to the souls his grace designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Called for a cloud... | |
 | William R. Williams - 1851 - Страниц: 300
...loveth, he chasteneth, although He does not WILLINGLY grieve the children of men. Thus, * Col. iv. 12. " He who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of His love, Called for a cloud to darken all their years, And said, ' Go spend them in the vale of tears.' " *... | |
 | William R. Williams - 1857 - Страниц: 274
...although He does not WILLINGLY grieve the children of men. Thus, * Col. iv. 12. " He who knew what humaa hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of His love, Called for a cloud to darken all their years, And said, ' Go spend them in the vale of tears.' " *... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - Страниц: 296
...securely tread ; Admonished, scorn the caution and the friend, Bent all on pleasure, heedless of its end. But He who knew what human hearts would prove, 'How...of ease would make them harder still ; In pity to the souls His grace designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Called for a cloud to darken all... | |
 | Mrs. Anderson (Caroline Dorothea), Caroline Dorothea Anderson (hon.) - 1852 - Страниц: 280
...unknown : No trav'ller ever reach'd that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briers on his road ; For He who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow...life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace design'd To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Call'd for a cloud to darken all... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - Страниц: 478
...weeds. It was an emblem of the uses of adversity, when God, for gracious purposes, sets the fire. For He who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow...life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Called for a cloud to darken all... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - Страниц: 78
...this world, who has not already found out that this is not a life of unclouded sunshine ? — " For He, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow...of ease would make them harder still : In pity to the souls his grace designed, To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Call'd for a cloud to darken all... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - Страниц: 800
...securely tread ; Admonish'd, scorn the caution and the friend, Bent all on pleasure, heedless of its end. But he, who knew what human hearts would prove, How...life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls hia grace design'd To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Call'd for a cloud to darken all... | |
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But He, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace design'd To rescue from the ruins of mankind,... 
