A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity |
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... virtue is praised , and vice is censured ; piety is , perhaps , applauded , and profaneness condemned . So far all is well : but let any one , who would not be deceived by these “ barren generalities , " examine a little more closely ...
... virtue is praised , and vice is censured ; piety is , perhaps , applauded , and profaneness condemned . So far all is well : but let any one , who would not be deceived by these “ barren generalities , " examine a little more closely ...
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... virtue ; and that it selects a seared conscience , and a callous heart , and a mind insensible to all moral distinctions , as the special objects of its vindication . Nor is it only in profane history , that instances are to be found ...
... virtue ; and that it selects a seared conscience , and a callous heart , and a mind insensible to all moral distinctions , as the special objects of its vindication . Nor is it only in profane history , that instances are to be found ...
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... virtue is also that of real interest , and of solid enjoyment . These facts are certain ; they cannot be disputed ; and they are at the same time so obvious , that one would have thought the celebrated apophthegm of the Grecian sage ...
... virtue is also that of real interest , and of solid enjoyment . These facts are certain ; they cannot be disputed ; and they are at the same time so obvious , that one would have thought the celebrated apophthegm of the Grecian sage ...
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... virtue it is difficult and laborious ; he is tainted with sin , not slightly and superficially , but radically and to the very core . That such is the Scripture account of man , however mortifying the acknowledgment of it may be to our ...
... virtue it is difficult and laborious ; he is tainted with sin , not slightly and superficially , but radically and to the very core . That such is the Scripture account of man , however mortifying the acknowledgment of it may be to our ...
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... virtue are of slow and difficult formation ; that they who draw the finest pictures of virtue , and seem most enamoured of her charms , are often the least under her influence , and by the merest trifles are drawn aside from that line ...
... virtue are of slow and difficult formation ; that they who draw the finest pictures of virtue , and seem most enamoured of her charms , are often the least under her influence , and by the merest trifles are drawn aside from that line ...
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Popular passages
Page 94 - ... that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God...
Page 39 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 206 - For by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Page 192 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 278 - And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write ; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars ; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Page 27 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 134 - For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low...
Page 187 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Page 281 - I also heard the men themselves, that they sang with a loud voice, saying, " Blessing, honour, and glory, and power be to Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
Page 220 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But...