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... human laws , and I will be as wicked as interest invites or impels me , fearless on this account of any after - reckoning in futurity . Am I avaricious ? I will take every opportunity of defrauding my neighbour of his property . Am I ...
... human laws , and I will be as wicked as interest invites or impels me , fearless on this account of any after - reckoning in futurity . Am I avaricious ? I will take every opportunity of defrauding my neighbour of his property . Am I ...
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... or be a burthen upon their neighbours . How is the earth to be cultivated and its fruits produced , if it were unlawful to attend at all to с worldly business , and what would become of the human SERM . II . ] the Kingdom of Heaven . 17.
... or be a burthen upon their neighbours . How is the earth to be cultivated and its fruits produced , if it were unlawful to attend at all to с worldly business , and what would become of the human SERM . II . ] the Kingdom of Heaven . 17.
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George Haggitt. worldly business , and what would become of the human race if this were neglected ? Besides the dangers of idleness are great , and it is impossible that the immediate duties of religion can take up our whole time ; it is ...
George Haggitt. worldly business , and what would become of the human race if this were neglected ? Besides the dangers of idleness are great , and it is impossible that the immediate duties of religion can take up our whole time ; it is ...
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... Human happiness is in general merely compa- rative , and it is not so much from the evils which themselves feel , that the poor complain of their lot , as from their conceiving that those whom for- tune has more highly favoured are more ...
... Human happiness is in general merely compa- rative , and it is not so much from the evils which themselves feel , that the poor complain of their lot , as from their conceiving that those whom for- tune has more highly favoured are more ...
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... human actions , but highly interested in them , and fully able to reward or punish them . He has strictly forbidden a wicked life , and solemnly sworn that he will severely punish it ; his own honour therefore seems to be concerned in ...
... human actions , but highly interested in them , and fully able to reward or punish them . He has strictly forbidden a wicked life , and solemnly sworn that he will severely punish it ; his own honour therefore seems to be concerned in ...
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Page 207 - Church, all children that they were made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven when they were baptized!
Page 407 - A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
Page 149 - WHEN the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place : and suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them : and they were all filled with the HOLY GHOST ; and began to speak with other tongues, as the SPIRIT gave them utterance.
Page 246 - Body and Blood of Christ are verily and indeed " taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's
Page 71 - What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it ? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me ; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
Page 335 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 411 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Page 217 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly . And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Page 264 - DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness ; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father ; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart ; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy.
Page 367 - So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.