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  • And Thou, whom reahns unkind beyond the main From fuch an Offspring, fuch a Spoufe detain,

    Sonnets and miscellaneous poems 1789

  • We give you, with all the tendernefs of a paternal affedtion, our Apoitolical Bene - diction, as likewife to your virtuous Spoufe, and to your dear new-born Son; and we pray the Almighty God that you may in - creafe in virtue from day to day, and ac - quire that glory which he hath referved for die Eledt SECOND SECOND LETTER 219

    Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV (Ganganelli): To which are Prefixed, Anecdotes of His Life 1777

  • Sad on the Sea-beat Shore thy Spoufe tobketh for thy Return.

    Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects 1771

  • To conclude, a mans Enemies are thofe of his own Houfe, which with their pernicious counfells inveigle Souls to partici - pate with them in fin: but that Soul which is allured that it hath a Lord and Father, a Bro - ther and Spoufe, in the Court of Heaven, is not to feek how to contemn Friends and Re - lations, no, nor to hate them too, and can Rem.

    Steps of ascension to God : written originally in Latin by the famous Cardinal Bellarmine 1705

  • It fig - hifies nothing, that fhe commits them with thofe that are called the friends of God, A jSTiW is not the lefs offended by the difbrders o£nis Spoufe, that proflitutes her. fclf'to his favourites, than if fhe proflitiited 'heir felf t© grangers.

    The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies: Proving that the Papacy is ... 1687

  • The place which the Spoufe was broueht to, • the banqueting houfe, 'or houfe of wine, i.c. of feafting, be - caufe wine is a principal part of feafts; by which we are to un - derftand the order, or means, whereby Chrift: conveys his graces and bleiiings to believers; and there is none of all the. ordinances of the gofpel that may more fitly be called the banqueting or feaft - ixig houfe, than this of the Lord's fupper, which is the great got - pel feail wherewith Chrift entertains his people on earth.

    Sacramental Meditations and Advices Grounded Upon Scripture Texts: Proper for Communicants, to ... 1793

  • The Lion confented: But, when he would have given the Royal Virgin into his Poffeflion, (he, lilce a giddy Thing as file was, not minding how ftie walked, by Chance fet her Paw upon her Spoufe, who was coming to in«t her, and cruQied her lit - tle Dear to Pieces ..,,

    Fables of Aesop and Others 1788

  • Thefe were as the Sun anJ Moon in this great Firmament, all whofc Stars were o (the hrlt magnitude, and the leaft of which would have been a great Lmminjry in an other Orb, Such was this Beauteous Spoufe of Cbrift \ fo like her heavenly Bride - groom, that for that refemblance fake, we may (ay of her,/Xrc was rxtttding lovely,.

    The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons in this Later Age: In Two Parts : I. of Divines, II. of ... 1683

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