Twelve sermons. TractsArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814 |
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... party violence are to be found . The Dean's peculiar strain of humour sometimes too displays it- self without rigid attention to decorum , of which the singular ser- mon on Sleeping in Church is a curious instance . But , on the whole ...
... party violence are to be found . The Dean's peculiar strain of humour sometimes too displays it- self without rigid attention to decorum , of which the singular ser- mon on Sleeping in Church is a curious instance . But , on the whole ...
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... party in this dispute , and which is equally contrary to other commands of God in the gospel . For , why do men love darkness rather than light ? The scripture tells us , " Because their deeds are evil ; " and there can be no other ...
... party in this dispute , and which is equally contrary to other commands of God in the gospel . For , why do men love darkness rather than light ? The scripture tells us , " Because their deeds are evil ; " and there can be no other ...
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... parties among us , there is none of them that seem to have so much as heard whether there be such a virtue in the world , as plainly appears by their practices ; and especially when they are placed in those stations where they can only ...
... parties among us , there is none of them that seem to have so much as heard whether there be such a virtue in the world , as plainly appears by their practices ; and especially when they are placed in those stations where they can only ...
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... party . He can represent his neighbour as a man of dan- gerous principles , can bring a railing accusation against him , perhaps a criminal one ; and so rob him of his livelihood , and find his own account by that , much more than if he ...
... party . He can represent his neighbour as a man of dan- gerous principles , can bring a railing accusation against him , perhaps a criminal one ; and so rob him of his livelihood , and find his own account by that , much more than if he ...
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... party hath once made entrance , with all its consequences of hatred , envy , partia- lity , and virulence , religion cannot long keep its hold in any state or degree of life whatsoever . For , if the great men of the world have been ...
... party hath once made entrance , with all its consequences of hatred , envy , partia- lity , and virulence , religion cannot long keep its hold in any state or degree of life whatsoever . For , if the great men of the world have been ...
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Page 99 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 78 - But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Page 156 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 159 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 116 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 47 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 197 - Who would ever have suspected Asgill for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials ? What other subject, through all art or nature, could have produced Tindal for a profound author, or furnished him with readers? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer. For had an hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion, they would have immediately sunk into...
Page 43 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 337 - Proper words, in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
Page 63 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...