9780217983099

Religious Allegories

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ISBN13: 9780217983099

Paperback|9780217983099


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Jtnd an highway shall be there, and a tcay, and it shall be culled The of holiness; the 11 nclcan shall not pass over it. Jsa. x v. 8. THE WAY OF HOLINESS. There is a place, a Holy place above, Where Angels holy dwell in light and love: There is a God, a Holy God who reigns, And holy empire over all maintains; There is a way, a holy way, whose road The holy Pilgrim brings to heaven and God: See on that way the holy Pilgrim hies, Nor doubts at last 'twill lead him to the skies. With robes entire, and garments clean and white, He walks with joy along the plains of light. See one has left the holy way divine, His clothes are soiled, he wallows now with swine; Alone, the Pilgrim on his pathway speeds, And leaves th' apostate to his worldly deeds. See where the way of Holiness stands cast up. It is strongly built and conspicuous to all beholders; a pilgrim is seen walking thereon triumphantly and secure; his garments are unsullied, and untorn. Down off the way is one wallowing in the mire;see how he grubs up the filthy lucre. His garments are rent, and soiled; the beastly swine are his chosen companions. This is an emblem of Holiness, and of its professors. The upright conduct of the pious, is called, a way, a highway, and The way of Holiness. It is a way of safety, No lion shall be there, and the wayfaring man, though a fool, illiterate] shall not err therein. The Pilgrim pursuing his journey, with his garments unsullied and untorn, denotes the Christian walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. The fine linen, clean and white, is the righteousness of the saints. The man among the swine, signifies an Apostate from God and Holiness; he has left off to do good; the love ...

ISBN-13

9780217983099

ISBN-10

021798309X

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0.38 Pounds

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9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In

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$14.14

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Paperback

Pages

110 pages

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Published On

2009-08-01



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