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Page 156
In the present age of the world , more distinguished for indifference than for zeal
in religious concerns , there is no great need of teaching toleration in practice .
But yet it may not be needless to preach toleration in sentiment . If therefore we
fall ...
In the present age of the world , more distinguished for indifference than for zeal
in religious concerns , there is no great need of teaching toleration in practice .
But yet it may not be needless to preach toleration in sentiment . If therefore we
fall ...
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... while we abide in the world , to have God and religion always in our thoughts ;
for temporal things demand a portion of ... that we endeavour in all our
conversation and demeanour to promote these two great objects of religious
precept , the ...
... while we abide in the world , to have God and religion always in our thoughts ;
for temporal things demand a portion of ... that we endeavour in all our
conversation and demeanour to promote these two great objects of religious
precept , the ...
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VIII , whether in religious doctrine , or in civil serm , government . When the
Protestants of France in a former age were obliged to flee from persecution on
account of their faith , our Fathers opened their hospitable arms for their reception
...
VIII , whether in religious doctrine , or in civil serm , government . When the
Protestants of France in a former age were obliged to flee from persecution on
account of their faith , our Fathers opened their hospitable arms for their reception
...
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This good is only to be found in the walks of religion , which administers peace
on earth by displaying to us the prospect of ... If once they had been habituated to
the exercises of religious Wisdom , they would have found to their inexhaustible ...
This good is only to be found in the walks of religion , which administers peace
on earth by displaying to us the prospect of ... If once they had been habituated to
the exercises of religious Wisdom , they would have found to their inexhaustible ...
Page 273
John Farrer. IX . paths are peace : When once we be - sern . come acquainted
with religion , not in speculation , but by experiment , we shall be brought to
acknowledge in its favour , that in the ordinary course of things it does not debar
us from ...
John Farrer. IX . paths are peace : When once we be - sern . come acquainted
with religion , not in speculation , but by experiment , we shall be brought to
acknowledge in its favour , that in the ordinary course of things it does not debar
us from ...
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Page 49 - But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 221 - And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him ; Take care of him ; and whatsoever thou spendest more when I come again, I will repay thee.
Page 261 - And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Page 19 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 257 - But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room ; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased ; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Page 132 - Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Page 208 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law...
Page 188 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 339 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day : and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table : moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Page 166 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Sermons on the Parables |
| Author | John Farrer |
| Publisher | F. and C. Rivington, 1801 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 371 pages |
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