 | Gerald R McDermott - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 262 pages
...used greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for a long time; and in the day, spent much time in viewing the clouds and sky, to...behold the sweet glory of God in these things: in the meantime, singing forth, with a low voice, my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer.* I should... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - Art - 1996 - 428 pages
...in viewing the clouds and sky, to behold the sweet glory of God in these things, in the meantime 236 singing forth, with a low voice, my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer. And scarce anything, among all the works of nature, was so sweet to me as thunder and lightning; formerly, nothing... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1148 pages
...greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon, for a long time; and so in the daytime, spent much time in viewing the clouds and sky, to...behold the sweet glory of God in these things: in the meantime, singing forth with a low voice, my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer. And scarce... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1146 pages
...time in viewing the clouds and sky, to behold the sweet glory of God in these things: in the meantime, singing forth with a low voice, my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer. And scarce anything, among all the works of nature, was so sweet to me as thunder and lightning. Formerly, nothing... | |
 | Michael J. McClymond - Religion - 1998 - 207 pages
...used greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for continuance; and in the day spent much time in viewing the clouds and sky, to...voice, my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer. 90 Outside of the lovely lyricism of the passage, one is struck by Edwards's mundane mysticism, his... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - History - 1995 - 348 pages
...used greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for a long time,- and in the day, spent much time in viewing the clouds and sky, to...voice, my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer. ... I had vehement longings of soul after God and Christ, and after more holiness, wherewith my heart... | |
 | Bruce Wilshire - Philosophy - 1999 - 308 pages
...locution "mystic irrational." 26. Note also Jonathan Edwards, "I often used to sit and view all nature, to behold the sweet glory of God in these things;...voice my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer. ... it was always my manner ... to sing forth my contemplations. I was almost constantly in ejaculatory... | |
 | Edwin Scott Gaustad - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 384 pages
...greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon, for a long time; and so in the daytime, spent much time in viewing the clouds and sky, to...behold the sweet glory of God in these things: in the meantime, singing forth with a low voice, my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer. And scarce... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - Religion - 2002 - 637 pages
...the year 1739 recorded his spiritual experience from perhaps two decades earlier — "I often . . . spent much time in viewing the clouds and sky, to behold the sweet glory of God in these things"; "Personal Narrative," in A Jonathan Edwards Reader, ed. John E. Smith, Harry S. Stout, and Kenneth... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - History - 2003 - 636 pages
...used greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for continuance; and in the day, spent much time in viewing the clouds and sky, to...voice my contemplations of the Creator and Redeemer. [Personal Narrative, I, 15-17- ]6 28. Of True Religion and Holy Affections" I Peter 1:8. Whom having... | |
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... in the sun, moon, and stars ; in the clouds and blue sky ; in the grass, flowers, trees ; in the water and all nature ; which used greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for... 
