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... in favor of Endless Misery , deduced from the Parable of the Great Gulph , 209 SECT . 7. Of the Opinion , that there will be no successive Duration in a Future State , 211 CHAPTER II . Of the Arguments conceived to favor the ix.
... in favor of Endless Misery , deduced from the Parable of the Great Gulph , 209 SECT . 7. Of the Opinion , that there will be no successive Duration in a Future State , 211 CHAPTER II . Of the Arguments conceived to favor the ix.
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... can dictate , and infinte goodness require - that all its conse- quences are foreseen and considered - that its time , its place , its measure , its duration , are all appointed by him who first set in motion the complicated and mighty 9.
... can dictate , and infinte goodness require - that all its conse- quences are foreseen and considered - that its time , its place , its measure , its duration , are all appointed by him who first set in motion the complicated and mighty 9.
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... duration of life , in the distribution of property - the prevalence of natural and moral evil in their thousand shapes sometimes press with such severity upon the mind , as to create , even in the most pious and confiding , a doubt ...
... duration of life , in the distribution of property - the prevalence of natural and moral evil in their thousand shapes sometimes press with such severity upon the mind , as to create , even in the most pious and confiding , a doubt ...
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... duration of felicity , cause the collective sum of happiness to exceed that of a misery which must ever be as lasting and more general than it- self , it seems impossible to conceive . It is believed that those who die in unrepented sin ...
... duration of felicity , cause the collective sum of happiness to exceed that of a misery which must ever be as lasting and more general than it- self , it seems impossible to conceive . It is believed that those who die in unrepented sin ...
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... duration ! How nearly does it assimilate him to the Supreme Being himself ! Who can believe that such faculties and such happiness can be bounded by the current of time , or swept away amidst the low and frivolous objects which it is ...
... duration ! How nearly does it assimilate him to the Supreme Being himself ! Who can believe that such faculties and such happiness can be bounded by the current of time , or swept away amidst the low and frivolous objects which it is ...
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Page 185 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out : it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire : 48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 198 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 178 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 199 - For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Page 260 - For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.
Page 261 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live, turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die?
Page 255 - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For he knoweth our frame ; He remembereth that we are dust.
Page 185 - But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers...
Page 202 - Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Page 201 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.