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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... late writer , in his ad- mirable treatise on the fubject of the Poor " If we enquire into the state of those countries , where " the people are grofsly ignorant , we shall find the " most unhappy confequences arising from their ...
... late writer , in his ad- mirable treatise on the fubject of the Poor " If we enquire into the state of those countries , where " the people are grofsly ignorant , we shall find the " most unhappy confequences arising from their ...
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... late eloquent and judicious hiftorians have " fet in a very striking view the barbarity and mi- fery of the middle ages , arifing almost wholly " from the ignorance which then overspread Eu- rope . " Wherever grofs ignorance prevails ...
... late eloquent and judicious hiftorians have " fet in a very striking view the barbarity and mi- fery of the middle ages , arifing almost wholly " from the ignorance which then overspread Eu- rope . " Wherever grofs ignorance prevails ...
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... late encouragers of Charity - Schools are never ટર enough to be commended for their care and dili- gence on this head , by which they have deserved " well of God and man , and have done the church " of England and the pure religion of ...
... late encouragers of Charity - Schools are never ટર enough to be commended for their care and dili- gence on this head , by which they have deserved " well of God and man , and have done the church " of England and the pure religion of ...
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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.