The Moral Reformer, Volume 1Sherwood, 1831 |
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... lead a life of sensuality and excess . From the want of early instruction , parental authority , and good example , we trace the alarming increase of juvenile delinquency , and of the youthful immoralities which are daily exhibited in ...
... lead a life of sensuality and excess . From the want of early instruction , parental authority , and good example , we trace the alarming increase of juvenile delinquency , and of the youthful immoralities which are daily exhibited in ...
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... leads to nothing less than the ruin of both body and soul . Some at home , some at parties , some at taverns , and others at places which I will not name , excited by animal gratification , sacrifice their character , and debase ...
... leads to nothing less than the ruin of both body and soul . Some at home , some at parties , some at taverns , and others at places which I will not name , excited by animal gratification , sacrifice their character , and debase ...
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and disgust in others who behold it , but too often leads to a course of expenditure , the most appalling in its effects . Would that I could say , " the strict professors of religion are all exceptions to this general list . " Whoever ...
and disgust in others who behold it , but too often leads to a course of expenditure , the most appalling in its effects . Would that I could say , " the strict professors of religion are all exceptions to this general list . " Whoever ...
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... lead to civil improvements ; for though these are not al- ways a certain criterion of religious attainments , yet , under favour- able circumstances , they often prove powerful auxiliaries . Like a ship sailing against the wind , they ...
... lead to civil improvements ; for though these are not al- ways a certain criterion of religious attainments , yet , under favour- able circumstances , they often prove powerful auxiliaries . Like a ship sailing against the wind , they ...
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... lead them to repentance and reformation . I pity the simplicity of those ( if such there be ) who sincerely think , that by building new churches , and establishing ritual services , they can prevent the increase of crime . The bulk of ...
... lead them to repentance and reformation . I pity the simplicity of those ( if such there be ) who sincerely think , that by building new churches , and establishing ritual services , they can prevent the increase of crime . The bulk of ...
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Page 315 - One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page 131 - They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 126 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the Last Days.
Page 126 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: They are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: Your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 126 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 210 - But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Page 29 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 169 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 234 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.