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... live , I would say that the present age is not inferior in virtue to the past . We have improved upon our ancestors in humanity , cha- rity , and benevolence ; we have exchanged the rage and rancour of animals of prey , for the meek and ...
... live , I would say that the present age is not inferior in virtue to the past . We have improved upon our ancestors in humanity , cha- rity , and benevolence ; we have exchanged the rage and rancour of animals of prey , for the meek and ...
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... lives , and to all the fervour of our spirits ? This will appear still more , in the next place , when we consider the superior obligations which we are laid under by Christianity . While many nations are sitting in dark- ness , and the ...
... lives , and to all the fervour of our spirits ? This will appear still more , in the next place , when we consider the superior obligations which we are laid under by Christianity . While many nations are sitting in dark- ness , and the ...
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... lives from destruction , and crownetli us with loving kindness and tender mercies . " When we are obliged to any of our fellow - creatures for an important favour , what pleasure is it to a generous heart , to be able to make the least ...
... lives from destruction , and crownetli us with loving kindness and tender mercies . " When we are obliged to any of our fellow - creatures for an important favour , what pleasure is it to a generous heart , to be able to make the least ...
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... lives : mar- tyrs have confirmed it , by their deaths : hypocrites have added strength to it , by their dissimulation : tyrants have purified it by their persecutions : infidels have corroborated it , by their opposition : the arrows of ...
... lives : mar- tyrs have confirmed it , by their deaths : hypocrites have added strength to it , by their dissimulation : tyrants have purified it by their persecutions : infidels have corroborated it , by their opposition : the arrows of ...
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... lives , which spends its powers in exercise , and requires repose , in order to recruit its wasted strength , and prepare it for new exertions . Activity is an essential attribute of mind . Its faculties exist only when they are ...
... lives , which spends its powers in exercise , and requires repose , in order to recruit its wasted strength , and prepare it for new exertions . Activity is an essential attribute of mind . Its faculties exist only when they are ...
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Page 113 - 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.
Page 43 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
Page 43 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 6 - How amiable are thy tabernacles,- O Lord of hosts ! " My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth, for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and, my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 167 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger.
Page 214 - Behold, a sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth : and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Page 20 - With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Page 35 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 236 - I exceedingly fear and quake : but ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 115 - Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.