I recently re-discovered that my Geneva Bible came with a CD-ROM containing the Geneva Bible in PDF format, along with the Apocrypha, AND the Metrical Psalms. The Metered Psalms were quite well done, and here is Psalm 90 (which happens to be my favorite), for those who are interested.
Domine refugium. Ps.90.I.H.
Moses seeing the people neither admonished by the
brevity of their life, nor by plagues to be thankful,
prayeth God to turn their hearts, and continue his mercy
toward them and their posterity forever.
Sing this as the 78 Psalm.
Thou Lord hast been our sure defense,
our place of ease and rest:
In all times past, yea, so long since,
as cannot be expressed.
2 Ere there was made mountain or hill,
the earth and all abroad:
From age to age, and always still,
forever thou art God.
3 Thou grindest man through grief and pain,
to dust, or clay, and then,
And then thou saist again, return
again, ye sons of men,
4 The lasting of a thousand year
What is it in thy sight?
As yesterday it doth appear
or as a watch by night.
5 So soon as thou dost scatter them,
then is their life and tread,
All as a sleep, and like the grass,
whose beauty soon doth fade.
6 Which in the morning shines full bright,
but fadeth by and by:
And is cut down ere it be night,
all withered, dead and dry.
7 For through thine anger we consume
our might is much decayed:
And of thy servant wrath and fume
we are full sore afraid.
8 The wicked works that we have wrought
thou setst before thine eye:
Our privy faults, yea, eke our thoughts
thy countenance doth spy.
9 For through thy wrath our days do waste,
thereof doth naught remain:
Our years consumes as words or blasts,
and are not called again.
10 Our time is threescore years and ten,
that we do live on mold:
If one see fourscore, surely then
we count him wondrous old.
11 Yet of this time the strength and chief
the which we count upon:
Is nothing else but painful grief,
and we like blasts are gone.
12 Who once doth know what strength is there
what might thine anger hath?
Or in his heart who doth thee fear
according to thy wrath?
13 Instruct us Lord to know and try,
how long our days remain:
That then we may our hearts apply
true wisdom to attain.
14 Return O Lord, how long wilt thou
forth on in wrath proceed?
Show favor to thy servants now,
and help them at their need.
15 Refresh us with thy mercy soon,
and then our joy shall be:
All times so long as life shall last
in heart rejoice shall we.
16 As thou hast plagued us before:
now also make us glad:
And for the years wherein full sore
affliction we have had.
17 O let thy work and power appear,
and on thy servant’s light:
And show unto thy children dear,
the glory and thy might.
18 Lord let thy grace and mercy stand
on us thy servant thus:
Confirm the works we take in hand,
Lord prosper them to us.
Showing posts with label sovereignty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sovereignty. Show all posts
17 April 2008
13 April 2008
Announcement and excerpt from USH2 paper
After about half a million edits...
Last Tuesday, I began turning a number of scenes that I've had in my head for a while into a story which I hope could end as a novella, at least. I have only the first chapter written and know what I want to do with the last two chapters; unfortunately, I only know the direction I want to take with the middle section, not the storyline. So I'm not going to bind myself to a set deadline for posting the next chapter, but if you'd like to read the first chapter at least, I've posted it to my Fiction/Poetry blog. I also submitted it, with a few poems, to the PHC Stylus literary publication. Input and criticism (from fellow Lit Snobs and all of my other friends who put up with our delusion that we're the coolest) is appreciated. I'd especially like suggestions for a main title; I currently plan for "Where the Wind Wills" to be a subtitle (and it is, by the way, a reference to John 3, not "Bohemian Rhapsody"...).
Also, our US History 2 paper is a comparison/contrast of Whittaker Chambers's Witness and Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. Up From Slavery was written in the late 1800s with Southern Reconstruction and the plight of the former slaves in mind, Witness in 1952 about the attempt to expose American Communism, but "for all their differences, they were both tales which brought the epic struggle between good and evil to a human level and made the principles applicable to the ordinary man by showing how ordinary men had fought and struggled with specific manifestations of that war," as I wrote in my paper.
The chief difference, though, in the authors' respective outlooks is one that struck me deeply as I was writing, and I devoted about a page to exploring that facet of their works. I may post more of the paper later, but here is the relevant excerpt for now:
"Washington was inspirational because he extolled the ability of men to raise themselves up from the ashes, and warned them not to allow their circumstances to dictate their future in such a way that they would never improve themselves. He was optimistic that the problems could be resolved and that the American people could put their dark past behind them in the next few generations. While acknowledging the faults of both parties in the past, he truly believed that they could be overcome by hard work and virtuous living—he believed that his object was attainable and that success lay within the volition of him and his fellow man.
Chambers was inspirational for nearly the opposite reason: he acknowledged that he was weak, and insisted that his role was thrust upon him against his will—but it was precisely the knowledge that this was his mission, arranged for him by destiny, that gave him the strength to fulfill it, because he knew that the same Providence that had assigned this terrible ordeal to him would direct the results, whether or not those results included his destruction. Chambers was willing to abandon all for the sake of the world and for the sake of destiny--and for his witness against Communism and for truth. He was pessimistic that his sacrifice would result in the ultimate salvation of the world—if it was not destroyed by Communism, it would fall prey to something else—but was certain that the guiding hand of God would nevertheless have a purpose even in this.
He thus inspired to play their part even men who are all too conscious of their own weakness. Their part need not be so crucial as his, nor need it be successful in human terms—whatever their part was, no matter how seemingly large or small, it formed a cog in the plan of Providence. He disagreed with the idea that the world would linearly improve; his hope lay in the ultimate end of the world which no human eye could yet see. This fundamental difference between Washington’s and Chambers’s presentations goes as deep as the level of their worldview, and could be described in religious terms as running as deeply as the difference between the theological concepts of merit and grace, for this is precisely the difference between them."
Last Tuesday, I began turning a number of scenes that I've had in my head for a while into a story which I hope could end as a novella, at least. I have only the first chapter written and know what I want to do with the last two chapters; unfortunately, I only know the direction I want to take with the middle section, not the storyline. So I'm not going to bind myself to a set deadline for posting the next chapter, but if you'd like to read the first chapter at least, I've posted it to my Fiction/Poetry blog. I also submitted it, with a few poems, to the PHC Stylus literary publication. Input and criticism (from fellow Lit Snobs and all of my other friends who put up with our delusion that we're the coolest) is appreciated. I'd especially like suggestions for a main title; I currently plan for "Where the Wind Wills" to be a subtitle (and it is, by the way, a reference to John 3, not "Bohemian Rhapsody"...).
Also, our US History 2 paper is a comparison/contrast of Whittaker Chambers's Witness and Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. Up From Slavery was written in the late 1800s with Southern Reconstruction and the plight of the former slaves in mind, Witness in 1952 about the attempt to expose American Communism, but "for all their differences, they were both tales which brought the epic struggle between good and evil to a human level and made the principles applicable to the ordinary man by showing how ordinary men had fought and struggled with specific manifestations of that war," as I wrote in my paper.
The chief difference, though, in the authors' respective outlooks is one that struck me deeply as I was writing, and I devoted about a page to exploring that facet of their works. I may post more of the paper later, but here is the relevant excerpt for now:
"Washington was inspirational because he extolled the ability of men to raise themselves up from the ashes, and warned them not to allow their circumstances to dictate their future in such a way that they would never improve themselves. He was optimistic that the problems could be resolved and that the American people could put their dark past behind them in the next few generations. While acknowledging the faults of both parties in the past, he truly believed that they could be overcome by hard work and virtuous living—he believed that his object was attainable and that success lay within the volition of him and his fellow man.
Chambers was inspirational for nearly the opposite reason: he acknowledged that he was weak, and insisted that his role was thrust upon him against his will—but it was precisely the knowledge that this was his mission, arranged for him by destiny, that gave him the strength to fulfill it, because he knew that the same Providence that had assigned this terrible ordeal to him would direct the results, whether or not those results included his destruction. Chambers was willing to abandon all for the sake of the world and for the sake of destiny--and for his witness against Communism and for truth. He was pessimistic that his sacrifice would result in the ultimate salvation of the world—if it was not destroyed by Communism, it would fall prey to something else—but was certain that the guiding hand of God would nevertheless have a purpose even in this.
He thus inspired to play their part even men who are all too conscious of their own weakness. Their part need not be so crucial as his, nor need it be successful in human terms—whatever their part was, no matter how seemingly large or small, it formed a cog in the plan of Providence. He disagreed with the idea that the world would linearly improve; his hope lay in the ultimate end of the world which no human eye could yet see. This fundamental difference between Washington’s and Chambers’s presentations goes as deep as the level of their worldview, and could be described in religious terms as running as deeply as the difference between the theological concepts of merit and grace, for this is precisely the difference between them."
07 February 2008
The Government majors are at it again...
Somehow this week's US History forum turned into a discussion of politics and candidates and all that jazz that's been on the news. I can't imagine how... Anyway, what I posted there is relevant here, and is pretty much my perspective on this whole election thing. It always helps to get things back to first principles.
"Whilst it has been fun listening to all you government majors rant and rave about how America is going down the tubes with liberal Democrats and liberal Republicans and Third Party pipe dreams, I already knew all that. I shall go quietly to the Nebraska primaries on May 15th and cast my vote dutifully as a citizen, quite probably blog my opinion, and possibly participate in some "get out the vote" stuff, and then leave the results in God's hands. It's not the end of the world, folks. Or if it is, then so be it.
Just remember:
Daniel 4:25 "...the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone He wishes."
Proverbs 21:1 "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; he directs it like a watercourse wherever He pleases."
I pray for the sake of the Church and for our peace as homeschoolers that we may be given a just ruler, but if we are given an evil ruler in judgment on our national sins, so be it. Our brothers in the Middle East and China and Eastern Europe (and Germany) would still love to live here. One of our very own DL professors (Dr. Erdmann) had to flee Germany a couple years ago because his family was homeschooling, and now lives in Switzerland where he must hold 4 or 5 jobs to keep up with the cost of living. Count your blessings.
Now I'm off to make a post on HISTORY.... ;-)
Your Tory friend,
For Monarchy and the Divine Right of Kings (you can't get much further to the right than that),
Colin"
"Whilst it has been fun listening to all you government majors rant and rave about how America is going down the tubes with liberal Democrats and liberal Republicans and Third Party pipe dreams, I already knew all that. I shall go quietly to the Nebraska primaries on May 15th and cast my vote dutifully as a citizen, quite probably blog my opinion, and possibly participate in some "get out the vote" stuff, and then leave the results in God's hands. It's not the end of the world, folks. Or if it is, then so be it.
Just remember:
Daniel 4:25 "...the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone He wishes."
Proverbs 21:1 "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; he directs it like a watercourse wherever He pleases."
I pray for the sake of the Church and for our peace as homeschoolers that we may be given a just ruler, but if we are given an evil ruler in judgment on our national sins, so be it. Our brothers in the Middle East and China and Eastern Europe (and Germany) would still love to live here. One of our very own DL professors (Dr. Erdmann) had to flee Germany a couple years ago because his family was homeschooling, and now lives in Switzerland where he must hold 4 or 5 jobs to keep up with the cost of living. Count your blessings.
Now I'm off to make a post on HISTORY.... ;-)
Your Tory friend,
For Monarchy and the Divine Right of Kings (you can't get much further to the right than that),
Colin"
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