 FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.  The Baptist Magazine - Página 4051829Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Frederick John Gillman - 1927 - 340 páginas
...passed in company with Newton and with his women friends : — The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet...Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours... | |
 | Ranjit Chatterjee, Colin Nicholson - 1984 - 408 páginas
...the turbulence of everyday existence and the storm of temptation and sin, man can commune with God: There, if thy Spirit touch the Soul And grace her mean abode; O with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God! But it is only in these isolated moments... | |
 | Leonore Davidoff, Catherine Hall - 1987 - 577 páginas
...distant from her husband's town church, was moved to quote Cowper: the calm retreat, the silent shade With prayer and praise agree And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.44 Thomas Clark, whose Birmingham business had benefited much from Cowper's recommendation of... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 páginas
...and the nightingale in one of Cowper's Olney Hymns: The calm retreat, the silent shade, With pray'r and praise agree; And seem by thy sweet bounty made,...thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode; Oh with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her GOD! There like a nightingale she pours... | |
 | Henry Wheeler - 2007 - 244 páginas
...the spirit, while his lips moved with the following words : — " The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those that follow Thee." But we must now draw near to the time when the din and confusion of the battle of... | |
 | Kevin Belmonte - 2009 - 355 páginas
...and they proved to be that stanza [from] Cowper's [Olney Hymns]: The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those that follow Thee. By the twelfth day of the poll, Wilberforce's reelection was certain. He experienced... | |
 | William Hague - 2007 - 644 páginas
...of his agents heard him repeating the same stanza from Cowper: The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those that follow Thee.52 There is no doubt that Wilberforce was damaged by weak organisation and the vituperative... | |
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