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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815. Excerpt: ... THOUGHTS IN PRISON; WEEK THE FOURTH. THE TRIAL' Dread'st thou an earthly bar? Thou who so oft In contemplation serious hast employ VI Thy dearest meditation's on a bar Tremendously decisive! who so oft That bar's important terrors hast display'd To crowds attentive; with the solemn theme Rapt in thought profound--And beats thy heart With throbs tumultuous--fail thy trembling knees, Now that in judgment thou must stand before Weak mortals, like thyself, and soon like thee, Shivering with guilt and apprehensions dire, To answer in dread judgment 'fore their God? The Trial. What gives that judgment terror? Guilt, pale guilt; Conscience accusing stern; the fiery law, The terrible hand-writing on the wall! But vanish these, --that mighty Day's-man found, Who, smiling on confession's genuine tear, - The meek repentant aspect, and the hand With ready, perfect retribution fraught, Urges complete his ransom, and sets free Th' immortal prisoner.--But, ah me! on earth Such golden mercy reigns not: here is found No potent Day's-man; here no ransom full, No clement mediator. Here stern law, With visage all-unbending, eyes alone The rigorous act. Confession here is guilt, And restitution perfect, perfect loss! Ah me the while, here men the judges are; And there, th' Omniscient mercy's source and stream! Triumphant consolation! Firm in faith, And justify'd by him whose precious blood For man flow'd liberal, the soul secure Of future acceptation at that bar The Trial Of trial most momentous, soars above The world's severest trials, and can view The verses subjoined were written by the King of Prussia, after a defeat, when one of his general officers had proposed to set him the example of self-destruction: Dans ces jours, pleins d'alarmes La constance et la fermet&#...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151245694
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151245690
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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