Letters on the Immortality of the Soul: The Intermediate State of the Dead, and a Future Retribution, in Reply to Mr. Charles HudsonG. Davidson, 1829 - 359 pages |
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... end is put to much misery suffered by the human race . If I am correct in my opinions , an end is put to all the terror and misery which ghosts have occa- sioned to children , and persons of riper years . INTRODUCTION . vii.
... end is put to much misery suffered by the human race . If I am correct in my opinions , an end is put to all the terror and misery which ghosts have occa- sioned to children , and persons of riper years . INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... correct , they remove an inconceivable load of distress from the mind , and direct it to a source of hope and consolation , solid , satisfying , and purifying . 6th , But on the supposition that the soul is immortal , and exists in a ...
... correct , they remove an inconceivable load of distress from the mind , and direct it to a source of hope and consolation , solid , satisfying , and purifying . 6th , But on the supposition that the soul is immortal , and exists in a ...
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... correct my errors in the spirit and language of a Christian ? Should I then give you attic salt for Roman wormwood , you have no right to complain , for it is hardly a righteous retribution . But I shall study to overcome evil with good ...
... correct my errors in the spirit and language of a Christian ? Should I then give you attic salt for Roman wormwood , you have no right to complain , for it is hardly a righteous retribution . But I shall study to overcome evil with good ...
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... correct . I must either believe it in- correct or consider them fools or fanatics , who can sit to hear the opinions you impute to him . I prefer thinking you misrepresented his opinions . But 4th . Public 24 LETTER I.
... correct . I must either believe it in- correct or consider them fools or fanatics , who can sit to hear the opinions you impute to him . I prefer thinking you misrepresented his opinions . But 4th . Public 24 LETTER I.
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... correct discernment of Mr. Ballou's opinions have departed to Westminster . They will smile at your attempt to teach them what the man's sentiments are , whom they have heard so often , and with whom they have daily intercourse . But ...
... correct discernment of Mr. Ballou's opinions have departed to Westminster . They will smile at your attempt to teach them what the man's sentiments are , whom they have heard so often , and with whom they have daily intercourse . But ...
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Page 131 - And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 131 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Page ii - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Page 132 - But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear ; Fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell ; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 142 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 163 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Page 49 - That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Page 64 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions : So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than my life.
Page 148 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Page 131 - 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 : where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.