City of God, how broad and far. Outspread thy walls sublime! The true thy chartered freemen are. Of every age and clime. One holy Church, one army strong;.
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His contributions to these collections were less numerous than those by S. Longfellow, but not less meritorious. He died at North Andover, Massachusetts, Feb. City of God, how broad and far Author: Samuel Johnson Meter: Skip to main content. City of God, how broad and far. Samuel Johnson Tune: The Glad Sound - Music for Advent. Representative Text 1 City of God, how broad and far outspread thy walls sublime! What is left is the great game of violence, of intimidation and rape, of abject gang loyalty for children for whom the ties of family, church or nationhood are meaningless jokes: The favela known as the City of God has been described as the film's chief "character", and as a location it looks unglamorously real in a way that cannot be approximated by set design.
There are some scenes at the beach, but the familiar world of Rio is light years away. At first glance, the dreary rows of jerry-built sheds in the middle of nowhere look very much like sheds for factory-farmed animals, or an encampment for refugees or prisoners of war.
It is seen in broad daylight, at night, and at one stage in a glowing crimson sunset. But nothing alleviates its grimness and inhumanity - at the very best it resembles a purpose-built suburb of poverty. Crime has, in a nauseous reversal of liberal social thinking, almost been "designed into" the City of God, but any foreseeable conventional breakdown of law and order has evolved one or two steps further into the corruption and degradation of children. Li'l Dice, a tiny kid, plans a staggeringly audacious hold-up of a brothel, but in a fit of pique at being relegated to the status of lookout by his older comrades, returns to the scene of the crime to murder every single innocent customer and employee of the "motel" - it is a truly chilling moment of unalloyed evil.
Meirelles's storytelling rushes forward at a full, breathless tilt, swerving, accelerating, doubling back on itself, amplifying the roles and experiences of incidental characters. A bravura narrative moment reveals itself when he discloses the history of one single apartment, showing how it becomes degraded and denatured as it ceases to be a family home and becomes a drug-dealer's den. The church of God is like a city, Because a city is a place of security.
Psalm Commentary - The Treasury of David
A place of society: A place of unity, that people may therein live in peace and concord. A place of trade and traffic. Here is the market of free grace: Here is the pearl of great price exposed for sale.
A place of freedom and liberty, freedom from the guilt of sin, wrath of God, curse of the law, present evil world, bondage to Satan, etc. A place of order and regularity; it hath its constitutions and ordinances. A place of rest, and commodious to live in, and thus it is opposed to the wilderness. A place of privileges. A place of pomp and splendour; there is the king, the court, the throne. A place of pleasure and beauty; Psalms Glad tidings in sad times; or, the city of God in the times of trouble and confusion, watered with the river of consolation.
What can this river be but that blessed covenant to which David himself repaired in the time of trouble?
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And what are the streams of this river, but the outgoings and effects of this divine constitution? The blood of Jesus. The influences of the Holy Spirit. The doctrines and promises of the gospel.
The ordinances of religion. All the means of grace. Make glad the city of God. There are four ways in which the streams of a river would gladden the citizens. The first regards prospect. The second regards traffic. The third regards fertility.
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The fourth regards supply.