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... choice of these titles , Oration and Argument , I need to make no apology , and I am liable to no censure . The question is , Are they Orations or are they Sermons ? Now , 1 according to my notion of the Sermon ( which viii PREFACE .
... choice of these titles , Oration and Argument , I need to make no apology , and I am liable to no censure . The question is , Are they Orations or are they Sermons ? Now , 1 according to my notion of the Sermon ( which viii PREFACE .
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... life be discovered and made use of . For criticism I have given most plentiful occasion , and I deprecate it not ; for it is the free agitation of questions that brings the truth to light . It has also been my lot PREFACE . ix.
... life be discovered and made use of . For criticism I have given most plentiful occasion , and I deprecate it not ; for it is the free agitation of questions that brings the truth to light . It has also been my lot PREFACE . ix.
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... question to as- certain what it is which hinders the multitude who peruse its pages from feeling and acknowledging its power , and turning from the error of their ways to serve the living and true God . And without recurring to what ...
... question to as- certain what it is which hinders the multitude who peruse its pages from feeling and acknowledging its power , and turning from the error of their ways to serve the living and true God . And without recurring to what ...
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... question therefore of a religious or an irreligious life , when thus opened up , no longer shows itself to be a question of liberty or of com- pulsion , but of one kind of authority against another . There are two competitors for our ...
... question therefore of a religious or an irreligious life , when thus opened up , no longer shows itself to be a question of liberty or of com- pulsion , but of one kind of authority against another . There are two competitors for our ...
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... question when thus accu- rately stated stands beyond all reasonable doubt , and leaves us without excuse in preferring human authority to divine , such is the antipathy and re- sistance of human nature to God , that his statutes which ...
... question when thus accu- rately stated stands beyond all reasonable doubt , and leaves us without excuse in preferring human authority to divine , such is the antipathy and re- sistance of human nature to God , that his statutes which ...
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Page 355 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Page 505 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 291 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be...
Page 354 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, 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 291 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Page 195 - 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 195 - God, the first-born of every creature, by whom all things were created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him ; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist,
Page 188 - His name shall be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
Page 322 - 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 imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 425 - And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter halt into life than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.