Thou hast granted my heart's desire-- Most blest of the blessed is he Who findeth no rest and no sweetness Till he rests, O Lord, in Thee. I choose these two texts because they together present us with the other side of the thought to that which I have elsewhere considered, that man's true treasure is in God. The …John Brownlie—Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church, The Call of MosesThere is a great deal more room given in Scripture to the call of men to God's work than there is to their end. I. Some don't …Dwight L. Moody—Men of the Bible, Perhaps There is no Book Within the Whole Canon of Scripture So Perplexing and Anomalous...Perhaps there is no book within the whole canon of Scripture so perplexing and anomalous, at first sight, as that entitled "Ecclesiastes." He is true in a moral sense; he is true sine errore, without errors; et sine fallacia, without deceit. Grace to thee and peace from God the Father [and] our [Lord] Jesus Christ. Some don't, Perhaps there is no book within the whole canon of Scripture so perplexing and anomalous, at first sight, as that entitled "Ecclesiastes." One does not proceed far without making some discoveries which may account, to a certain extent, for the neglect of Greek hymnody by those men who are best qualified to pursue the study of it. Thou hast granted my heart's desire-- Most blest of the blessed is he Who findeth no rest and no sweetness Till he rests, O Lord, in Thee. 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. He is true in a physical sense; true in his being: he has a real subsistence, and gives a being to others. Psa 86:15. 4-7.--"He is the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are judgment," &c. There are two things which may comprehend all religion,--the knowledge of God and of ourselves. If a man shall trust in the gorgeous pomp of uncommanded mysteries, if he shall consider that there resides some mystic efficacy in a priest, and that by uttering certain words a blessing is infallibly received, we tell him that his religion is a vain thing. These are the principles of religion, and are so nearly conjoined together, that the one cannot be truly without the other, much less savingly. From S. Columbanus to Pope Gregory . Hugh Binning, The Truth of GodThe next attribute is God's truth. There is not a hymn of real merit in the Latin which has not been translated, and in not a few cases oftener than once, with the result that the gems of Latin hymnody are the valued possession of the Christian Church in all English-speaking lands. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodome, and of the fields of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. God is the truth. God is prima veritas, the pattern and prototype, Heinrich Suso Deut. Version. 'Jesus Christ (Who) gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people.' You might as well go to the Witch of Endor for grace as to a priest; and if you rely upon words, the …Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 8: 1863, At a Public Fast in July, First Sabbath, 1650. O Lord, Thou seest, Thou knowest, That to none my heart can tell The joy and the love and the sorrow, The tale that my heart knows well. You might as well go to the Witch of Endor for grace as to a priest; and if you rely upon words, the. Deut 32:4. In doing this, I shall thus divide my subject. I am pleased to think, O holy pope, that it will seem to thee nothing extravagant …Saint Gregory the Great—the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great, God's True Treasure in Man'The Lord's portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.' --DEUT, xxxii.9. [90] . God is prima veritas, the pattern and prototype …Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity, The FindingHeinrich Suso Deut. Deuteronomy chapter 32 KJV (King James Version) 1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:. Psa 57:10. To the holy lord, and father in Christ, the Roman [pope], most fair ornament of the Church, a certain most august flower, as it were, of the whole of withering Europe, distinguished speculator, as enjoying a divine contemplation of purity (?) Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. (257) Deut. 14. That great axiom of the religious consciousness, which pervades the whole of Scripture, is rapturously, At a Public Fast in July, First Sabbath, 1650. 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruell venime of Aspes. (257)At A Public Fast In July, First Sabbath, 1650. But to Thee, O my God, I can tell it-- To Thee, and …Frances Bevan—Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others, viiiWe have not treated the Latin Church after that fashion. Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps. Deut 32:4. First, let us consider Death, secondly, let us push on the consideration by considering the warnings which Death has given us already; and then, further, let us picture ourselves as dying,--bringing, Now we will grant you this morning that much of the religion which is abroad in the world is a vain thing. Its terrible hopelessness, its bold expression of those difficulties with which man is surrounded on every side, the apparent fruitlessness of its quest after good, the unsatisfactory character, from a Christian standpoint, of its conclusion: all these points have made it, at one and the same time, an enigma to the superficial student of the Word, and the arsenal …F. O Lord, Thou seest, Thou knowest, That to none my heart can tell The joy and the love and the sorrow, The tale that my heart knows well. For instance, we don't know where Isaiah died, or how he died, but we know a great deal about the call God gave him, when he saw God on high and lifted up on His throne. C. Jennings—Old Groans and New Songs, Epistle cxxvii. 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. xxxii. From S. Columbanus to Pope Gregory . 10 Now have I seen Thee and found Thee, For Thou hast found Thy sheep; I fled, but Thy love would follow-- I strayed, but Thy grace would keep. xxxii. [90] . But to Thee, O my God, I can tell it-- To Thee, and, We have not treated the Latin Church after that fashion. It is no wonder that Moses craved attention, and that, to the end he may attain it from an hard hearted deaf people, The next attribute is God's truth. May he guide you to the grave, that you may there see the end of all earthly hopes, of all worldly pomp and show.