Of the Imitation of Christ: Four Books

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Rivingtons, 1875 - 207 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة i - A Short and Plain Instruction for the better Understanding of the Lord's Supper ; to which is annexed, the Office of the Holy Communion, with proper Helps and Directions. 'By Thomas Wilson, DD, late Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man.
الصفحة 101 - Thee above all creatures,2 above all health and beauty, above all glory and honour, above all power and dignity, above all knowledge and...
الصفحة 25 - Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching : verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
الصفحة 167 - Visit me with Thy salvation, that I may taste in spirit Thy sweetness, which plentifully lieth hid in this sacrament as in a fountain. Enlighten also mine eyes to behold so great a mystery, and strengthen me with undoubting faith to believe it.
الصفحة 76 - Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth, because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.
الصفحة 33 - And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. O the stupidity and hardness of man's heart, which thinketh only upon the present, and doth not rather care for what is to...
الصفحة 69 - Let not Moses speak unto me, nor any of the prophets, but rather do thou speak...
الصفحة 67 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."1 So that when we have thoroughly read and searched all, let this be the final conclusion, " That through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God."* 1 Luke ix.
الصفحة 2 - What will it avail thee to dispute profoundly of the Trinity, if thou be void of humility, and art thereby displeasing to the Trinity? Surely high words do not make a man holy and just; but a virtuous life maketh him dear to God.
الصفحة 156 - ... offend the eyes of thy majesty. According to the greatness of thy goodness and the multitude of thy mercies look upon me...

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