An Essay on the Sin and the Evils of Covetousness: And the Happy Effects which Would Flow from a Spirit of Christian Beneficence. Illustrated by a Variety of Facts, Selected from Sacred and Civil History, and Other Documents |
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... evil which the Essays advertised for were intended to counteract . For , although a hundred Essays had been sent , the carriage of which was two shillings each , the whole sum thus expended would not have amounted to above £ 10 - which ...
... evil which the Essays advertised for were intended to counteract . For , although a hundred Essays had been sent , the carriage of which was two shillings each , the whole sum thus expended would not have amounted to above £ 10 - which ...
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... evil may be prevented , religious society improved , and the world enlightened and regenerated . Having been com- posed in the course of four or five months , and in the midst of many interruptions and avocations , it is hoped , the ...
... evil may be prevented , religious society improved , and the world enlightened and regenerated . Having been com- posed in the course of four or five months , and in the midst of many interruptions and avocations , it is hoped , the ...
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... was not their own , and the ambitious desire of being " like the god's and knowing good and evil . DESIGNATED BY COVETOUSNESS . 21 in the world at large, Historical sketch of its operations and progress in ancient times,
... was not their own , and the ambitious desire of being " like the god's and knowing good and evil . DESIGNATED BY COVETOUSNESS . 21 in the world at large, Historical sketch of its operations and progress in ancient times,
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... evil . " This covetous and ambitious act " brought death into the world and all our woe , " and was the prelude and fore- runner of all those devastations and miseries which avarice and ambition have entailed on the inhabitants of the ...
... evil . " This covetous and ambitious act " brought death into the world and all our woe , " and was the prelude and fore- runner of all those devastations and miseries which avarice and ambition have entailed on the inhabitants of the ...
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... EVIL , and de- signated by the term IDOLATRY ; a crime which , above all others , has a tendency to degrade the character of man , and to subvert the relations in which he stands to his fellow creatures , and to his Creator - which ...
... EVIL , and de- signated by the term IDOLATRY ; a crime which , above all others , has a tendency to degrade the character of man , and to subvert the relations in which he stands to his fellow creatures , and to his Creator - which ...
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Page 116 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Page 242 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Page 176 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 306 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 191 - Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the Name of the LORD thy GOD, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.
Page 117 - Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Page 213 - And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Page 176 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 155 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 129 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.