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... truth respecting himself . Guilty indolence , or cri- minal activity ; cheerful benevolence , or wretched selfishness ; enmity towards God , and hatred of men ; or ardent love to both , —there it stands . It is recorded , written ...
... truth respecting himself . Guilty indolence , or cri- minal activity ; cheerful benevolence , or wretched selfishness ; enmity towards God , and hatred of men ; or ardent love to both , —there it stands . It is recorded , written ...
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... truths of Jesus to their deluded fellow - men . All these are instances of the morally sublime , which men will admire in proportion to their appreciation of disinterested benevolence , and the power of religious truth as the motive of ...
... truths of Jesus to their deluded fellow - men . All these are instances of the morally sublime , which men will admire in proportion to their appreciation of disinterested benevolence , and the power of religious truth as the motive of ...
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... Truth in one of its forms was thus ascendant in his mind ; and were this all that we know of the history of his soul ... truth which he professed to admire . It was mere emotion ; there was no work of grace , no guidance of that Spirit ...
... Truth in one of its forms was thus ascendant in his mind ; and were this all that we know of the history of his soul ... truth which he professed to admire . It was mere emotion ; there was no work of grace , no guidance of that Spirit ...
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... truth which conducts the soul amid a thousand perils and trials , to serenity and repose ? He had a godly father , and his early training was in the best school of religion . Had that no effect on his conduct and history ? Beyond all ...
... truth which conducts the soul amid a thousand perils and trials , to serenity and repose ? He had a godly father , and his early training was in the best school of religion . Had that no effect on his conduct and history ? Beyond all ...
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... truth brings in ? — " I saw thy pulse's maddening play , Misled by Fancy's meteor ray , Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way , By passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven . " " 22 We have another view of ...
... truth brings in ? — " I saw thy pulse's maddening play , Misled by Fancy's meteor ray , Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way , By passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven . " " 22 We have another view of ...
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Page 33 - IN the cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time ; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime.
Page 17 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head; How his first followers and servants sped: The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down to heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope springs...
Page 44 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see them to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 70 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Page 58 - For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Page 30 - The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone : but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Page 186 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 208 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 'God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Page 117 - Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Page 276 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...