 | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1804 - 146 páginas
...with thy smiles ; The keenest woe life ever meets, Love strips of all its terrors, and beguile*.. . 'Tis just, that God should not be dear, Where self...cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self-love be dispcssess'd ; . . The Love of God deserves the whole, . And will not dwell with so despis'da guest.... | |
 | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1834 - 140 páginas
...above all sweets, To souls enamor'd with thy smiles ; The keenest woe life ever meets, Love strips of all its terrors, and beguiles. Tis just, that God...of Thee flows just as much As that of ebbing Self sudsides ; Our hearts, their scantiness is such, Bear not the conflict of two rival tides. Both cannot... | |
 | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1837 - 118 páginas
...Where self engrosses all the thought, And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not. The love of thee flows just as much...ebbing self subsides ; Our hearts, their scantiness is sucb, Bear not the conflict of two rival tides. 36 Both cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self-love... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 páginas
...Where self engrosses all the thought, And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not. The love of Thee flows just as much...Our hearts, their scantiness is such, Bear not the confliet of two rival tides. Both cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self-love be dispossess'd ;... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1847 - 468 páginas
...self engrosses all the thought ; — And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not. The love of thee flows just as much...self subsides ; Our hearts (their scantiness is such) Sear not the conflict of two rival tides. Both cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self-love be dispossess'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 páginas
...Where self engrosses all the thought, And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not. The love of Thee flows just as much As that of ebbing sell' subsides ; Our hearts, their scantiness is such, Bear not the conflict of two rival tides. Both... | |
 | 1850 - 778 páginas
...The love of thee flows jnit as much As that of ebbing self subsides : Onr hearts (their (tcaritine** is such) Bear not the conflict of two rival tides* Both cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self love be dispossess 'd : The love of God deserves, the whole, And will not dwell with so despised... | |
 | Mary Lynam - 1852 - 206 páginas
...own life for his friend." Then seek this love ; nothing less can satisfy your soul. The love of God flows just as much, As that of ebbing self subsides,...conflict of two rival tides. Both cannot govern in the soul, Then let self-love be dispossessed : The love of God deserves the whole, And will not dwell... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1853 - 544 páginas
...wounded to death, still lives. And the more it is indulged, the stronger it becomes. But "The love of God flows just as much As that of ebbing self subsides ; Our hearts, their scantiness is such, Cannot sustain two rival tides. Both cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self-love be dispossessed... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1853 - 538 páginas
...to death, still lives. And the more it is indulged, the stronger it becomes. But " The love of God flows just as much As that of ebbing self subsides ; Our hearts, their scantiness is such, Cannot sustain two rival tides. Both cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self-love be dispossessed... | |
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Tis just that God should not be dear Where self engrosses all the thought, And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not. The love of Thee flows just as much As that of ebbing self subsides ; Our hearts, their scantiness... 
