Sermons ...: With a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author, Volumen1Sharpe & Son, Edwards & Company, [and others], 1820 |
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... truth . In the city of Cæsarea , there dwelt a Roman centurion , a military officer of inferior rank , a Gentile , neither by birth nor religion entitled to the privileges of the Jewish nation . But he was a devout and a benevolent man ...
... truth . In the city of Cæsarea , there dwelt a Roman centurion , a military officer of inferior rank , a Gentile , neither by birth nor religion entitled to the privileges of the Jewish nation . But he was a devout and a benevolent man ...
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... truth . They arrogate to themselves all the manly and the active virtues . But devout affections , and religious duties , they treat with contempt , as founded on shadowy speculations , and fit to employ the attention only of weak and ...
... truth . They arrogate to themselves all the manly and the active virtues . But devout affections , and religious duties , they treat with contempt , as founded on shadowy speculations , and fit to employ the attention only of weak and ...
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... to say , that faith and piety , joined with active virtue , constitute the requi- site preparation for heaven . They , in truth , VOL . I. B begin the enjoyment of heaven . In every state of SERM . 1.3 17 PIETY AND MORALITY .
... to say , that faith and piety , joined with active virtue , constitute the requi- site preparation for heaven . They , in truth , VOL . I. B begin the enjoyment of heaven . In every state of SERM . 1.3 17 PIETY AND MORALITY .
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... virtue , than any which the world can afford . Look abroad into life , and you will find the general sense of mankind bearing witness to this important truth , that mind is superior to fortune GERM . 2. ] RELIGION UPON ADVERSITY . 31.
... virtue , than any which the world can afford . Look abroad into life , and you will find the general sense of mankind bearing witness to this important truth , that mind is superior to fortune GERM . 2. ] RELIGION UPON ADVERSITY . 31.
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... truth , that mind is superior to fortune ; that what one feels within is of much greater importance than all that befals him without . Let a man be brought into some such severe and trying situation , as fixes the attention of the ...
... truth , that mind is superior to fortune ; that what one feels within is of much greater importance than all that befals him without . Let a man be brought into some such severe and trying situation , as fixes the attention of the ...
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Página 237 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Página 53 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Página 101 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Página 148 - He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand...
Página 202 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Página 194 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Página 146 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 53 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Página 133 - Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.