A reply to the Letters of the abbé Dubois, on the state of Christianity in India1824 |
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... manners of the inhabitants of India , yet there are Englishmen in the service , whose moral conduct is such as to command the admira- tion of the natives , and who exert them- selves to promote the improvement of the Heathen under their ...
... manners of the inhabitants of India , yet there are Englishmen in the service , whose moral conduct is such as to command the admira- tion of the natives , and who exert them- selves to promote the improvement of the Heathen under their ...
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... manner I have related . When the Brahmins remonstrated against this innovation , he re- plied with a smile , and bade them only to listen well to the new music , and observe its vast superiority over their own tom - toms and pipes . For ...
... manner I have related . When the Brahmins remonstrated against this innovation , he re- plied with a smile , and bade them only to listen well to the new music , and observe its vast superiority over their own tom - toms and pipes . For ...
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... manner , by their edu- cation and customs , that they are quite in- sensible to all that does not make a strong impression on the senses : " ( p . 68. ) And hence the necessity , I presume , of disguising the Christian Religion , under ...
... manner , by their edu- cation and customs , that they are quite in- sensible to all that does not make a strong impression on the senses : " ( p . 68. ) And hence the necessity , I presume , of disguising the Christian Religion , under ...
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... manners , were calculated to blind the understanding against those parts of the Gospel which are most objectionable to the pride of man ; but which must be subdued , before the doctrines and precepts of the New Testament can be rightly ...
... manners , were calculated to blind the understanding against those parts of the Gospel which are most objectionable to the pride of man ; but which must be subdued , before the doctrines and precepts of the New Testament can be rightly ...
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... of the Virgin Mary ; and draw it round the Church , in the same manner as the Hindoos drag their Idols round their Temples . The Roman Catholics in India , where they can afford 92 Means employed by the Roman Catholics.
... of the Virgin Mary ; and draw it round the Church , in the same manner as the Hindoos drag their Idols round their Temples . The Roman Catholics in India , where they can afford 92 Means employed by the Roman Catholics.
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Page 18 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 265 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth : he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 213 - See a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks, on every side arise Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
Page 161 - Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 10 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you : but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Page 188 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 28 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shaU rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 213 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day!
Page 31 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 212 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.