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... spirit of civilization , coalesced into societies ; while others , resisting the power of restraint , were vagrant and wild . The result was , that they who were the weakest either in number or strength , were expelled , and forced to ...
... spirit of civilization , coalesced into societies ; while others , resisting the power of restraint , were vagrant and wild . The result was , that they who were the weakest either in number or strength , were expelled , and forced to ...
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... spirits they ima- gined had taken up their residence in the heavenly bodies . Into these two parts idolatrous worship may justly be divided . Concerning the former of these , Job , who lived about A. M. 2600 , says , " If I beheld the ...
... spirits they ima- gined had taken up their residence in the heavenly bodies . Into these two parts idolatrous worship may justly be divided . Concerning the former of these , Job , who lived about A. M. 2600 , says , " If I beheld the ...
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... Spirit every where present , never absent , needs no image to supply his place . " " The Egyptians , though reputed the wisest of the Gentiles , carried their system of idolatry so far , as to include the worship of animals . The Jews ...
... Spirit every where present , never absent , needs no image to supply his place . " " The Egyptians , though reputed the wisest of the Gentiles , carried their system of idolatry so far , as to include the worship of animals . The Jews ...
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... spirits and noxious animals , a remain of Druidism ; another sort of beltein is placing crosses dipped in pottage over the doors of the cattle hovels , on Thursday before Easter ; the late - wake , or funeral dance ; the coranich , or ...
... spirits and noxious animals , a remain of Druidism ; another sort of beltein is placing crosses dipped in pottage over the doors of the cattle hovels , on Thursday before Easter ; the late - wake , or funeral dance ; the coranich , or ...
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... Spirit ; and therefore quickly and swiftly did their word run through the world , or rather the word of God , by their ministry converting many sinners from the evil of their ways , whom no man could have changed by whatever punishments ...
... Spirit ; and therefore quickly and swiftly did their word run through the world , or rather the word of God , by their ministry converting many sinners from the evil of their ways , whom no man could have changed by whatever punishments ...
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Page 49 - Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Page 289 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, ** Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, ** And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in...
Page 52 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Page 395 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 306 - Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
Page 119 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Page 254 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Page 72 - Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds ; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father ; by whom all things were made...
Page 278 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour...
Page 146 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.