 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Conduct of life - 1831 - 308 pages
...she was ready, when alone, more than once to break out in the beautiful words of the hymn — '• Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? " How bless'd the hours I once enjoyed ! How sweet their memory stilt ! — But they have left an... | |
 | John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw - Lord's Supper - 1831 - 240 pages
...of spiritual life and joy, forced to exclaim, "Oh, that it were with me as in days that are past!" "Where is the blessedness I knew, When first I saw...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word?" 13 Ah! if we have lost the light of God's countenance and the joys of his salvation, we must seek them... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Conduct of life - 1831 - 308 pages
...length she was ready, when alone, more than once to break out in the beautiful words of the hymn " Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord 1 Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word 1 How sweet their memory still!— But they... | |
 | James Montgomery - Hymns, English - 1832 - 484 pages
...shine In robes of victory through the skies, The glory shall be thine. 377Walking with God. 1 OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame...view Of Jesus, and his word ? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never... | |
 | Madeleine Forell Marshall, Janet Todd - Music - 1982 - 196 pages
...traditional religious associations fuse into a pastoral emblem that is not particularly to the point: Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame;...light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! The proximity of "Lamb" to "walk," "light," and "road," each symbolic in itself, results in an... | |
 | Bibles - 2006 - 342 pages
...William Cowper catches the shame and the hope of it all in his hymn "O for a closer walk with God": Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? It is not certain that Lot had been with Abraham in Egypt, but he is with him at Bethel. He is now... | |
 | John C. Gibson - Bibles - 1982 - 348 pages
...William Cowper catches the shame and the hope of it all in his hymn "O for a closer walk with God": Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view (ii) It is not certain that Lot had been with Abraham in Egypt, but he is with him at Bethel. He is... | |
 | Ranjit Chatterjee, Colin Nicholson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 408 pages
...experienced".23 He begins with a statement of desire: Oh for a closer Walk with God A calm and heav'nly Frame, A Light to shine upon the Road That leads me to the Lamb (139)!2" On the surface this stanza seems Evangelical enough; but there is a subtle diminishing... | |
 | G. Campbell Morgan - Religion - 1984 - 68 pages
...souls who have to answer No. Alas! for the men and women everywhere who are sighing Cowper's hymn, Where is the blessedness I knew, When first I saw the Lord?" I am not criticizing Cowper for writing it, but my heart is always sorry for the cause of his writing... | |
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FOR a closer walk with God ! A. calm and heavenly frame ! A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb... 
