what I have been reading in the mornings

what I have been reading in the mornings

'The Life of Jesus Christ' Part Two Volume 1, Chapters 1-57 By Ludolph of Saxony
https://litpress.org/Products/LOJCSET

'Reformed Systematic Theology: Spirit and Salvation' Volume 3 by Beeke & Smalley
https://www.crossway.org/authors/joel-r-beeke/

'New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional' by Paul David Tripp

'The Strudlhof Steps' A Novel by Heimito Von Doderer Translated from the German by Vincent Kling

'The Ordeal Of Mark Twain' literary biography by Van Wyck Brooks

491 8.7. J. Hart
Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension. Rev. 1. 8-18; Isa. 25. 8; Matt. 25. 31-41
1 Pleased we read in sacred story,
How our Lord resumed his breath;
Where’s, O Grave, thy conquering glory?
Where’s thy sting, thou phantom Death?
Soon thy jaws, restrained from chewing,
Must disgorge their ransomed prey;
Man first gave thee power to ruin;
Man, too, takes that power away.

2 I am Alpha, says the Saviour,
I Omega likewise am!
I was dead and live for ever,
God Almighty and the Lamb.
In the Lord is our perfection,
And in him our boast we’ll make;
We shall share his resurrection,
If we of his death partake.

3 Ye that die without repentance,
Ye must rise when Christ appears;
Rise to hear your dreadful sentence,
While the saints rejoice in theirs:
You to dwell with fiends infernal,
They with Jesus Christ to reign;
They go into life eternal,
You to everlasting pain.