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... object of delight . And , had the friends of the Reformation been assiduous , as they ought to have been , in bring- ing these momentous bearings of that event promi- nently before the world - had they roused themselves as they ought ...
... object of delight . And , had the friends of the Reformation been assiduous , as they ought to have been , in bring- ing these momentous bearings of that event promi- nently before the world - had they roused themselves as they ought ...
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... objects which it proposes , has obvi- ously in view the promotion of human happiness , and the progressive melioration of human society . Sentiments similar to those which have been ex- pressed in these introductory remarks , seem to ...
... objects which it proposes , has obvi- ously in view the promotion of human happiness , and the progressive melioration of human society . Sentiments similar to those which have been ex- pressed in these introductory remarks , seem to ...
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... object of their opposition was their own aggrandize- ment , not the liberation of their enslaved subjects ; and , remarkable only for their pride , and the contempt with which they regarded the inferior classes of society , the ...
... object of their opposition was their own aggrandize- ment , not the liberation of their enslaved subjects ; and , remarkable only for their pride , and the contempt with which they regarded the inferior classes of society , the ...
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... object , till the monstrous sys- tem was completed , and , by the imposition on the world of the doctrine of infallibility , was invested with a cha- racter that seemed superior to change . It was the re- ception of this most ...
... object , till the monstrous sys- tem was completed , and , by the imposition on the world of the doctrine of infallibility , was invested with a cha- racter that seemed superior to change . It was the re- ception of this most ...
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... object for which it had been intro- duced . * Such were the means by which was reared , and long protected , " that whole dark pile of human mockeries , " called Popery , which extended its dismal shade over the Christian world ...
... object for which it had been intro- duced . * Such were the means by which was reared , and long protected , " that whole dark pile of human mockeries , " called Popery , which extended its dismal shade over the Christian world ...
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Page 273 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying ; Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Page 113 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Bab-y-lon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 159 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 273 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 234 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 234 - ... evangelists, and of the holy innocents, who in the sight of the Holy Lamb, are found worthy to sing the new song of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, together with the holy and elect of God, May he...
Page 87 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 235 - in his thighs, in his genitals," [My father shook his head] " and in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and feet, and toe-nails ! " May he be cursed in all the joints and articulations of his members, from the top of his head to the sole of his foot! May there be no soundness in him ! " May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his majesty...
Page 274 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Page 184 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.