An essay on the sin and the evils of covetousnessE.C. Biddle, 1840 |
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... persons necessarily are . 2. It appears under the pretence of making provision for children - a pretence which is generally nothing more than a cloak to cover the principle of avarice which is fixed in the mind . 3. It operates most ...
... persons necessarily are . 2. It appears under the pretence of making provision for children - a pretence which is generally nothing more than a cloak to cover the principle of avarice which is fixed in the mind . 3. It operates most ...
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... persons to perpetual slavery , or destroy them from the earth , " for the declared purpose " of bringing the Lord's sheep into one Dominican fold under one Universal Pastor . " By whom , then , was this atrocious commerce opened , and ...
... persons to perpetual slavery , or destroy them from the earth , " for the declared purpose " of bringing the Lord's sheep into one Dominican fold under one Universal Pastor . " By whom , then , was this atrocious commerce opened , and ...
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... persons ought to consider , that the very same principle which operates in such cases , if left to its own native energies , and to operate without control from the force of human laws , would lead to all the atrocities and scenes of ...
... persons ought to consider , that the very same principle which operates in such cases , if left to its own native energies , and to operate without control from the force of human laws , would lead to all the atrocities and scenes of ...
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... persons but also the most powerful princes and sovereign states exclaimed loudly against the despotic dominion of the Pontiffs , the fraud , avarice and injustice that prevailed in their coun- cils , the arrogance and extortion of their ...
... persons but also the most powerful princes and sovereign states exclaimed loudly against the despotic dominion of the Pontiffs , the fraud , avarice and injustice that prevailed in their coun- cils , the arrogance and extortion of their ...
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... are absolutely at the Pope's devotion , do not amount to less than 2,000,000 of persons , dispersed through all the Roman Catholic countries to assert his supremacy over princes , and to promote the interest of 34 ON THE EFFECTS.
... are absolutely at the Pope's devotion , do not amount to less than 2,000,000 of persons , dispersed through all the Roman Catholic countries to assert his supremacy over princes , and to promote the interest of 34 ON THE EFFECTS.
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Page 107 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Page 223 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Page 120 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 164 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 180 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 165 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 200 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys : I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 145 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 212 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a Light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 121 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.