The Metropolitan Pulpit: Or, Sketches of the Most Popular Preachers in London, Volume 1

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George Virtue, 1839
 

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Página 302 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying. Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Página 274 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear : clouds they are without water, carried about of winds ; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots ; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame ; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Página 276 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Página 164 - Peter said : Silver and gold I have none, but what I have, I give thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk.
Página 314 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he retumeth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Página 75 - The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Página 254 - No more to love, or hope, or fear — To join the great equality : All alike are humbled there ! The mighty grave Wraps lord and slave, Nor pride nor poverty dares come Within that refuge-house, the tomb ! Spirit with the drooping wing, And the ever-weeping eye, Thou of all earth's kings art king ! Empires at thy footstool, lie ! Beneath thee...
Página 276 - And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
Página 96 - ... The present system of education is strongly biassed in favor of professional and literary pursuits, to which there would be no objection were every man's vocation in life, law, medicine, theology, or kindred avocations. But these are not the callings for which the majority are intended. The average man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and must be a producer, in order to obtain support.
Página 115 - On one occasion, about three years before his death, he was preaching to one of the most crowded congregations that ever assembled to hear him. In the middle of his discourse he observed a great commotion in the gallery. For a time he took no notice of it, but finding it increasing, he paused in his sermon, and looking in the direction in which the confusion prevailed, he exclaimed, " What's the matter there ? The Devil seems to have got among you!

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