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... a consultation of thy own sensual appetites , about the best mode of gratifying them ; and in this wretched chace , how often are the fences of religion , morality , and good government overturned , and the interests of thy xxiv.
... a consultation of thy own sensual appetites , about the best mode of gratifying them ; and in this wretched chace , how often are the fences of religion , morality , and good government overturned , and the interests of thy xxiv.
Page xxv
... interests of thy neighbour made to bleed , to gratify thy pleasures . to In order if possible to induce thee to forsake these low pursuits ; let me conjure thee to come and taste those pleasures , which result from an improvement of thy ...
... interests of thy neighbour made to bleed , to gratify thy pleasures . to In order if possible to induce thee to forsake these low pursuits ; let me conjure thee to come and taste those pleasures , which result from an improvement of thy ...
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... interests , and unhappy passions which distract our world . The author of the following contemplations , still more ... interest in the cause which Luther had begun , and which has been brought to still greater per- fection by his ...
... interests , and unhappy passions which distract our world . The author of the following contemplations , still more ... interest in the cause which Luther had begun , and which has been brought to still greater per- fection by his ...
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... interests of superstition and licentiousness , have rapidly increased . Anxious to contribute his proportion of strength to the prevention of this evil , the author in various contemplations of this work , has treated largely of the ...
... interests of superstition and licentiousness , have rapidly increased . Anxious to contribute his proportion of strength to the prevention of this evil , the author in various contemplations of this work , has treated largely of the ...
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... interest , they should surely bestow upon the latter from motives of love , and always do when possessed of that divine faith , which as admirably described by the apostle , " Out of weakness makes strong , quenches the violence of fire ...
... interest , they should surely bestow upon the latter from motives of love , and always do when possessed of that divine faith , which as admirably described by the apostle , " Out of weakness makes strong , quenches the violence of fire ...
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Page 218 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 220 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Page 394 - Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel ; is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal...
Page 438 - Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in, and found her dead, and carrying her forth buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Page 394 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 30 - And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Page 36 - As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Page 216 - In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so. Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Page 217 - He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
Page 184 - There is only one condition previously required of those who desire admission into these societies, "a desire to flee from the wrath to come, and to be saved from their sins.