Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society by Rebecca Styler

Author:Rebecca Styler [Styler, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781351272261
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

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1[Philip] Doddridge’s [The] Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul [1745].

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ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD, ‘THE NEW COMMANDMENT’ (NO. 214)

In James Martineau (ed.), Hymns for the Christian Church and Home [1840] (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1866), n.p.

Behold where, breathing love divine,

Our dying Master stands!

His weeping followers, gathering round,

Receive his last commands.

From that mild teacher’s parting lips

What tender accents fell!

The gentle precept which he gave

Became its author well.

‘Blest is the man whose softening heart

Feels all another’s pain!

To whom the supplicating eye

Was never raised in vain.

He spreads his kind supporting arms

To every child of grief;

His secret bounty largely flows,

And brings unasked relief.

To gentle offices of love

His feet are never slow;

He views through mercy’s melting eye

A brother in a foe.

Peace from the bosom of his God,

My peace to him I give;

And when he kneels before the throne,

His trembling soul shall live.’

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