The National Preacher, Volumes 27-281853 - Religion |
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... evil . It is your vain imaginings that cause you so much concern . Look at the grave through the perspective of reason . There you can neither regret nor fear , neither think nor feel . You revert to your original nothingness ; or ...
... evil . It is your vain imaginings that cause you so much concern . Look at the grave through the perspective of reason . There you can neither regret nor fear , neither think nor feel . You revert to your original nothingness ; or ...
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... evil of his ways ! how intent is he on the world which he then so solemnly re- nounced ! Nay , he hates any allusion to his sick - bed scene : he will laugh away the remembrance , and tell his worldly companions that he was only a ...
... evil of his ways ! how intent is he on the world which he then so solemnly re- nounced ! Nay , he hates any allusion to his sick - bed scene : he will laugh away the remembrance , and tell his worldly companions that he was only a ...
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... evil , man's responsibility , and the necessity of morals were debated with as much skill and eloquence in the tents of the Idumean Emirs , as they have been ages since in the halls of Oxford ; nor has human reason in the course of ...
... evil , man's responsibility , and the necessity of morals were debated with as much skill and eloquence in the tents of the Idumean Emirs , as they have been ages since in the halls of Oxford ; nor has human reason in the course of ...
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... evil . Nothing is so much dreaded as death . In the common mind it is associated with what is supremely painful , revolting , and terrific . As no other term conveys so vivid an idea of wretchedness , it has been employed to represent ...
... evil . Nothing is so much dreaded as death . In the common mind it is associated with what is supremely painful , revolting , and terrific . As no other term conveys so vivid an idea of wretchedness , it has been employed to represent ...
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... evil infesting that community ; and the watch- word of the Church universal militant against the world of iniquity . It becomes us to act in view of that which is the real and true object of all our labor ; not in view of false or even ...
... evil infesting that community ; and the watch- word of the Church universal militant against the world of iniquity . It becomes us to act in view of that which is the real and true object of all our labor ; not in view of false or even ...
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Page 234 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 226 - ... that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 260 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 69 - But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us...
Page 95 - For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Page 215 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 174 - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Page 179 - Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 204 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness ; for they shall be many.
Page 208 - Let us (said He) pour on him all we can. Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way, Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all His treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...