Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385319404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden, Distilled and Dispensed
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385319404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385319404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Flowers from a Puritan's Garden
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781648630750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781648630750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Flowers from a Puritan's Garden
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781505843453
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
While commenting upon the One Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm, I was brought into most intimate communion with Thomas Manton, who has discoursed upon that marvelous portion of Scripture with great fullness and power. His works occupy twenty-two volumes in the modern reprint -- a mighty mountain of sound theology. They mostly consist of sermons -- but what sermons! There is not a poor discourse in the whole collection: he is constantly excellent. Ministers who do not know Manton, need not wonder if they are themselves unknown. Here, then, is a man whose figures will be sure to be usable by the earnest preacher who has forsworn the baubles of rhetoric, and aims at nothing but the benefit of his hearers. I thought it worth while to go through volume after volume, and mark the metaphors; and then I resolved to complete the task by culling all the best figures out of the whole of Manton's works. Thus my clearing his house of all his pictures, and hanging them up in new frames of my own. I do not rob him, but I bless him by giving him another opportunity of speaking. To make this little book more generally acceptable, I have thrown it into a somewhat devotional form, using Manton's figures as texts for brief meditations: this I humbly hope may be found profitable for reading in the chamber of private worship. The latter half of the work was composed in the gardens and olive-groves of Mentone, where I found it a pleasure to muse, and compose. How I wish that I could have flooded my sentences with the sunlight of that charming region! As it is, I have done my best to avoid dullness, and to aim at edification. If a single practical truth is the more clearly seen through my endeavors, I shall be grateful; and doubly so if others are helped to make their teaching more striking. Highly shall we be favored if the gracious Master shall accept our service, and grant us the consciousness of that acceptance; happier still if we may hope to hear him say, "Well done good an faithful servant!" That all my readers may meet with so great a blessing is the earnest prayer of their grateful servant, C.H. Spurgeon, Westwood, January, 1883.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781505843453
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
While commenting upon the One Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm, I was brought into most intimate communion with Thomas Manton, who has discoursed upon that marvelous portion of Scripture with great fullness and power. His works occupy twenty-two volumes in the modern reprint -- a mighty mountain of sound theology. They mostly consist of sermons -- but what sermons! There is not a poor discourse in the whole collection: he is constantly excellent. Ministers who do not know Manton, need not wonder if they are themselves unknown. Here, then, is a man whose figures will be sure to be usable by the earnest preacher who has forsworn the baubles of rhetoric, and aims at nothing but the benefit of his hearers. I thought it worth while to go through volume after volume, and mark the metaphors; and then I resolved to complete the task by culling all the best figures out of the whole of Manton's works. Thus my clearing his house of all his pictures, and hanging them up in new frames of my own. I do not rob him, but I bless him by giving him another opportunity of speaking. To make this little book more generally acceptable, I have thrown it into a somewhat devotional form, using Manton's figures as texts for brief meditations: this I humbly hope may be found profitable for reading in the chamber of private worship. The latter half of the work was composed in the gardens and olive-groves of Mentone, where I found it a pleasure to muse, and compose. How I wish that I could have flooded my sentences with the sunlight of that charming region! As it is, I have done my best to avoid dullness, and to aim at edification. If a single practical truth is the more clearly seen through my endeavors, I shall be grateful; and doubly so if others are helped to make their teaching more striking. Highly shall we be favored if the gracious Master shall accept our service, and grant us the consciousness of that acceptance; happier still if we may hope to hear him say, "Well done good an faithful servant!" That all my readers may meet with so great a blessing is the earnest prayer of their grateful servant, C.H. Spurgeon, Westwood, January, 1883.
Ore from the Puritans' Mine
Author: Dale Smith
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
ISBN: 1601787766
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Ore from the Puritans’ Mine is the go-to collection of quotes from the English Puritans.
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
ISBN: 1601787766
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Ore from the Puritans’ Mine is the go-to collection of quotes from the English Puritans.
Founding Gardeners
Author: Andrea Wulf
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307390683
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. • “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation. Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307390683
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. • “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation. Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.
By Any Other Name
Author: Simon Morley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861540549
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
‘Fascinating...I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life’s seminal moments. Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has become one of the most adored flowers across cultures, no longer selected by nature, but by us. The rose is well-versed at enchanting human hearts. From Shakespeare’s sonnets to Bulgaria’s Rose Valley to the thriving rose trade in Africa and the Far East, via museums, high fashion, Victorian England and Belle Epoque France, we meet an astonishing array of species and hybrids of remarkably different provenance. This is the story of a hardy, thorny flower and how, by beauty and charm, it came to seduce the world.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861540549
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
‘Fascinating...I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life’s seminal moments. Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has become one of the most adored flowers across cultures, no longer selected by nature, but by us. The rose is well-versed at enchanting human hearts. From Shakespeare’s sonnets to Bulgaria’s Rose Valley to the thriving rose trade in Africa and the Far East, via museums, high fashion, Victorian England and Belle Epoque France, we meet an astonishing array of species and hybrids of remarkably different provenance. This is the story of a hardy, thorny flower and how, by beauty and charm, it came to seduce the world.
Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks
Author: Thomas Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Being a collection of sentences, illustrations, and quaint sayings, from the works of that renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Being a collection of sentences, illustrations, and quaint sayings, from the works of that renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks.
The bruised reed and smoking flax, 1630
Author: Richard SIBBES
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden, Distilled and Dispensed
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385319390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385319390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Illustrations and meditations: or, Flowers from a puritan's [T. Manton's] garden, distilled and dispensed by C.H. Spurgeon
Author: Thomas Manton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Homiletical illustrations
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Homiletical illustrations
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description