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Page iii
... better to leave a passage as dark as it was found , than to change a word , except when the wrong one was evidently a mere mistake of the printer's . FRANCIS JENKS . Boston , October 1st , 1827 . CONTENTS . I. Why men resist and put ...
... better to leave a passage as dark as it was found , than to change a word , except when the wrong one was evidently a mere mistake of the printer's . FRANCIS JENKS . Boston , October 1st , 1827 . CONTENTS . I. Why men resist and put ...
Page 4
... better than we seem to be , or , in reality , than we are . Here , if in any thing , men love darkness rather than light ; error without examination , rather than truth with it . For what shall we gain by examination ? Only more and ...
... better than we seem to be , or , in reality , than we are . Here , if in any thing , men love darkness rather than light ; error without examination , rather than truth with it . For what shall we gain by examination ? Only more and ...
Page 5
... better of . One would suppose that light was always more grateful than darkness , knowledge than ignorance ; but our Saviour knew it to be otherwise ; he knew what was in man ; he knew , that though lost and bewildered , though not ...
... better of . One would suppose that light was always more grateful than darkness , knowledge than ignorance ; but our Saviour knew it to be otherwise ; he knew what was in man ; he knew , that though lost and bewildered , though not ...
Page 10
... better than those , they are principles lodged in the very lowest part of our nature , and have nothing in them of dignity or virtue . Religious obedience , provided it be sincere , from whatever cause it proceeds , will at last , will ...
... better than those , they are principles lodged in the very lowest part of our nature , and have nothing in them of dignity or virtue . Religious obedience , provided it be sincere , from whatever cause it proceeds , will at last , will ...
Page 38
... better the propriety of this distinction , if we would allow ourselves to consider well what salvation is ; what the being saved means . It is nothing less than , after this life is ended , being placed in a state of hap- piness ...
... better the propriety of this distinction , if we would allow ourselves to consider well what salvation is ; what the being saved means . It is nothing less than , after this life is ended , being placed in a state of hap- piness ...
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