SermonsJacob Halsey and Company near the Episcopal Church, 1799 - 437 pages |
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... continually opening wider its fluices , and adding to it that force and extenfion which genius alone can give to the principles of vice . Our own country , although as yet but in the infancy of its exiflence , is rapidly imitating the ...
... continually opening wider its fluices , and adding to it that force and extenfion which genius alone can give to the principles of vice . Our own country , although as yet but in the infancy of its exiflence , is rapidly imitating the ...
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... continually rifing in their minds , concerning doctrines which hitherto had appeared so respectable and holy.— Their doubts kept pace with their vices . As fucceffive indulgence threw down the fences of virtue to a greater extent , they ...
... continually rifing in their minds , concerning doctrines which hitherto had appeared so respectable and holy.— Their doubts kept pace with their vices . As fucceffive indulgence threw down the fences of virtue to a greater extent , they ...
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... continually burft forth , and dif- play themfelves in the whole manner of their oppofition to the inflitutions of piety . Too plain it is , to be denied , that their pre- tended infidelity , and their declared hollili- ty to religion ...
... continually burft forth , and dif- play themfelves in the whole manner of their oppofition to the inflitutions of piety . Too plain it is , to be denied , that their pre- tended infidelity , and their declared hollili- ty to religion ...
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... continually speaks to us , indeed , of the fuperior illumination of reason ; but it fprings out of the very bofom of darkness . It boasts of a ftrength of mind fuperior to other men ; but it fhews us only the weak- nefs of a corrupted ...
... continually speaks to us , indeed , of the fuperior illumination of reason ; but it fprings out of the very bofom of darkness . It boasts of a ftrength of mind fuperior to other men ; but it fhews us only the weak- nefs of a corrupted ...
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... continually fport its principles as a juftification of their irregulari ies . Unhap- py men ! who are tearing away , with perni- cious zeal , every remaining tie that yet im- poses any check upon your career to ruin ; for one moment ...
... continually fport its principles as a juftification of their irregulari ies . Unhap- py men ! who are tearing away , with perni- cious zeal , every remaining tie that yet im- poses any check upon your career to ruin ; for one moment ...
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Page 389 - As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire ; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 264 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 97 - And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom : the rich man also died, and was buried. And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.
Page 424 - And the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon, to shine in it ; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 186 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax: it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Page 208 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright : At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 331 - For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Page 261 - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you : that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 389 - He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Page 357 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh ; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...