An Introduction to Christianity: Designed to Preserve Young People from Irreligion and ViceGriffin and Rudd, 1814 - 211 pages |
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... heaven , it solicits , a consideration adequate to its importance , and claims the study of our calmest and most retired moments . A survey of the visible heavens , connected with the minuter studies of natural history , always inspires ...
... heaven , it solicits , a consideration adequate to its importance , and claims the study of our calmest and most retired moments . A survey of the visible heavens , connected with the minuter studies of natural history , always inspires ...
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... heaven ; the magni- tude , splendor , and harmony of its orbs ; the variety , beauty , and uses of plants ; the numerous substances of which the earth is composed ; the mechanis : n , and forms of animal bodies , are so many striking ...
... heaven ; the magni- tude , splendor , and harmony of its orbs ; the variety , beauty , and uses of plants ; the numerous substances of which the earth is composed ; the mechanis : n , and forms of animal bodies , are so many striking ...
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... heavens and the earth in a chaotic state , and his omnipresent spirit actuated the fertile mass . He said , " let there be light , and there was light ; and he separated the light from the darkness ; and God saw that the light was good ...
... heavens and the earth in a chaotic state , and his omnipresent spirit actuated the fertile mass . He said , " let there be light , and there was light ; and he separated the light from the darkness ; and God saw that the light was good ...
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... heaven were governed by abso- lute laws , but man , being a free and intelligent crea- ture , was governed by a moral injunction . God enter- ed into covenant with him , in which all his posterity were included . I. The happy pair were ...
... heaven were governed by abso- lute laws , but man , being a free and intelligent crea- ture , was governed by a moral injunction . God enter- ed into covenant with him , in which all his posterity were included . I. The happy pair were ...
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... heaven , knowing good and evil . " To this elating and treasonable speech , the woman assent- ed , and seeing the delicious quality of the fruit , she presumed to pluck and eat ; and taking some to her husband , seduced him by the same ...
... heaven , knowing good and evil . " To this elating and treasonable speech , the woman assent- ed , and seeing the delicious quality of the fruit , she presumed to pluck and eat ; and taking some to her husband , seduced him by the same ...
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Page 161 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 157 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 55 - All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth...
Page 151 - And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image ; these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Page 146 - And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious.
Page 125 - So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness ; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Page 150 - That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 61 - For unto which of the angels said He at any time, Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee...
Page 56 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Page 155 - And the Lord will create upon every dwelling-place of Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence.