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Page 1
... doubt but that the intention of our Maker , in giving us the faculty of speech , was mutual utility and pleasure ? Yet the faculty of speech often produces the very reverse of these , mutual annoyance and offence . Our joints and limbs ...
... doubt but that the intention of our Maker , in giving us the faculty of speech , was mutual utility and pleasure ? Yet the faculty of speech often produces the very reverse of these , mutual annoyance and offence . Our joints and limbs ...
Page 5
... doubt an ease which will become the sorest of all evils , worse than any terror , any dis- turbance , which inquiry and reflection can produce ; and re- flection is recommended by an assurance , that it will lead to good . You will ...
... doubt an ease which will become the sorest of all evils , worse than any terror , any dis- turbance , which inquiry and reflection can produce ; and re- flection is recommended by an assurance , that it will lead to good . You will ...
Page 21
... doubt but that the person who wrote them , was at that time laboring and struggling under pow- erful workings and impressions of conscience ; under a deep sense of guiltiness before God , and of the shame and misery , self condemnation ...
... doubt but that the person who wrote them , was at that time laboring and struggling under pow- erful workings and impressions of conscience ; under a deep sense of guiltiness before God , and of the shame and misery , self condemnation ...
Page 22
... doubt with himself whether religion be indeed within him . It is a different thing from the shame of men ; it is a secret humiliation and debase- ment , when we call to mind our behaviour , as towards God . The Publican in the gospel ...
... doubt with himself whether religion be indeed within him . It is a different thing from the shame of men ; it is a secret humiliation and debase- ment , when we call to mind our behaviour , as towards God . The Publican in the gospel ...
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... doubt this intelligence would take off much of the load which weighed down his spirits , much of the pain of his condition . But ought this relief and alleviation to make him go and be as wicked as ever ? If it did so , no 28 USE AND ...
... doubt this intelligence would take off much of the load which weighed down his spirits , much of the pain of his condition . But ought this relief and alleviation to make him go and be as wicked as ever ? If it did so , no 28 USE AND ...
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