A sermon preached in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London: June the 12th, 1783. To which is annexed, An account of the Society for promoting Christian knowledge |
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... fome expedient be employed periodically to revive and cherish the holy flame . Let me congratulate the Society : on the additional circumstances of folemnity , de- vifed , with equal benevolence and tafte , to grace their anniverfary ...
... fome expedient be employed periodically to revive and cherish the holy flame . Let me congratulate the Society : on the additional circumstances of folemnity , de- vifed , with equal benevolence and tafte , to grace their anniverfary ...
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... fome are afflicted , and some are not : and they whom our Lord healed of one , yet died afterwards of another . The faying in which all men are interested , and which ought therefore " of all men to be received , " is , " that Jefus ...
... fome are afflicted , and some are not : and they whom our Lord healed of one , yet died afterwards of another . The faying in which all men are interested , and which ought therefore " of all men to be received , " is , " that Jefus ...
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... , " who are in general very ignorant , are ripe for every crime . Had the fame degree of knowlege , " of which fome complain as improper for the " commonalty , " commonalty , been imparted to them , there is 10 A SERMON PREACHED.
... , " who are in general very ignorant , are ripe for every crime . Had the fame degree of knowlege , " of which fome complain as improper for the " commonalty , " commonalty , been imparted to them , there is 10 A SERMON PREACHED.
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... fome pre- " vious instruction , they can reap but little benefit " from them . It appears then to be an object of great importance to the public , as well as to in- " dividuals , that the meaneft of the people should " be taught to read ...
... fome pre- " vious instruction , they can reap but little benefit " from them . It appears then to be an object of great importance to the public , as well as to in- " dividuals , that the meaneft of the people should " be taught to read ...
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... fome faint refemblance ; when the innumerable company of those rescued by your charity from the hands of the deftroyer , and numbered among the children of God , fhall be feen clothed in the robes of righteousness and falvation ...
... fome faint refemblance ; when the innumerable company of those rescued by your charity from the hands of the deftroyer , and numbered among the children of God , fhall be feen clothed in the robes of righteousness and falvation ...
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Page 8 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children, that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.