For the Oracles of God, Four Orations: For Judgement to Come, an Argument in Nine Parts |
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... sensual pleasures , and by the enchantment of their geniu well nigh commend their unho- ly themes to the imagination of saints . Others , to the high and noble sentiments of the heart , will sing of domestic joys and happy unions ...
... sensual pleasures , and by the enchantment of their geniu well nigh commend their unho- ly themes to the imagination of saints . Others , to the high and noble sentiments of the heart , will sing of domestic joys and happy unions ...
Page 46
... sensual instinct prevail against the calls of the Almighty to glory and honour . And multitudes to whom life's commonest drudgery is an enjoyment compared with the obedience of a godly custom or a Christian precept . This reluctance to ...
... sensual instinct prevail against the calls of the Almighty to glory and honour . And multitudes to whom life's commonest drudgery is an enjoyment compared with the obedience of a godly custom or a Christian precept . This reluctance to ...
Page 80
... sensual gratifications , and do no- thing for the common weal but consume its stores - others idle amongst trifles , passing the bright season of youth in vain and empty shows - others fight against their own and the public peace ...
... sensual gratifications , and do no- thing for the common weal but consume its stores - others idle amongst trifles , passing the bright season of youth in vain and empty shows - others fight against their own and the public peace ...
Page 105
... sensual and self- ish lusts . The enemy within the breast gets the upper hand of the little state , and the father , the friend , the master , our country , have to dethrone him ; and thereafter to attempt the resurrection of their ally ...
... sensual and self- ish lusts . The enemy within the breast gets the upper hand of the little state , and the father , the friend , the master , our country , have to dethrone him ; and thereafter to attempt the resurrection of their ally ...
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... sensual . For , as we have seen , it addresseth every good and generous feeling within the breast , and prompts it into activity by every inducement . Then from the personal it proceeds to watch over the social prin- ciple , regulating ...
... sensual . For , as we have seen , it addresseth every good and generous feeling within the breast , and prompts it into activity by every inducement . Then from the personal it proceeds to watch over the social prin- ciple , regulating ...
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Page 208 - Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick and ye visited me: I was in prison and ye came unto me.
Page 16 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 135 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 209 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in : naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 126 - Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; And my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 231 - Many will say to me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works?" And then will I profess unto them, "I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 192 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling; — 'tis too horrible!
Page 246 - ... the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched.
Page 125 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O GOD, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore GOD, even thy GOD, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Page 209 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered and fed thee? or thirsty and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ; or when saw we thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee...