Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical: Adapted to the Promotion of Christian Piety, Family Religion, and Youthful Virtue, Volume 4by Isaiah Thomas, Jun.; Sold at his respective bookstores in Boston and Worcester., 1810 |
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Page 11
... feel no motive to virtue , or restraint from vice , except what arises from temporal conve- nience , or inconvenience . And of his own conve- nience every man will judge for himself : He will consequently submit to no fixed rules of ...
... feel no motive to virtue , or restraint from vice , except what arises from temporal conve- nience , or inconvenience . And of his own conve- nience every man will judge for himself : He will consequently submit to no fixed rules of ...
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... will hereafter be no worse , than theirs who entertained the opposite opinion . In annihilation there can be on distinction . The believer will feel no disap- pointment ; there will be none to reproach him , 16 The Folly of Atheism .
... will hereafter be no worse , than theirs who entertained the opposite opinion . In annihilation there can be on distinction . The believer will feel no disap- pointment ; there will be none to reproach him , 16 The Folly of Atheism .
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... feel ourselves impotent ; we see others impotent , like ourselves . We may be una- ble to procure the things which we want , or to en joy them , if we had them . Our friends are dying around , and we are soon to die , like them . We ...
... feel ourselves impotent ; we see others impotent , like ourselves . We may be una- ble to procure the things which we want , or to en joy them , if we had them . Our friends are dying around , and we are soon to die , like them . We ...
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... feel our ob- ligation to obey him , and our desert of punishment when we offend him . Conscious , that we have in ... feels him- self justly exposed to condemnation for his dis- obedience to 22 The Folly of Atheism .
... feel our ob- ligation to obey him , and our desert of punishment when we offend him . Conscious , that we have in ... feels him- self justly exposed to condemnation for his dis- obedience to 22 The Folly of Atheism .
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... feel an enmity to the gospel , because it requires a strict purity of heart and life . While their hearts are fully set in them to do evil , they cannot be pleased with those holy precepts , which forbid and condemn the evil ; they ...
... feel an enmity to the gospel , because it requires a strict purity of heart and life . While their hearts are fully set in them to do evil , they cannot be pleased with those holy precepts , which forbid and condemn the evil ; they ...
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Page 168 - The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Page 37 - Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father : if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
Page 26 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 178 - And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Page 389 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord...
Page 331 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 332 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Page 372 - 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 204 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 373 - Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.