Sermons Preached at the Annual Election1820 |
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... prosperity . The seeds of moral disease germinate , and a baneful harvest evinces the fatal tendency of corruption . To evoke the shades of departed states and empires is not needful here . They flit across the pages of history , both ...
... prosperity . The seeds of moral disease germinate , and a baneful harvest evinces the fatal tendency of corruption . To evoke the shades of departed states and empires is not needful here . They flit across the pages of history , both ...
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... prosperity , and seek its good with a steady zeal , and a single aim . If he suffer no personal interest to come in competition with it , so as to make him prefer the private to the public good , he is thought to act with sufficiently ...
... prosperity , and seek its good with a steady zeal , and a single aim . If he suffer no personal interest to come in competition with it , so as to make him prefer the private to the public good , he is thought to act with sufficiently ...
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... prosperity is his own pros- perity , that of his family , that of his children . In providing for it , and seeking to promote it , he is ma- king the best and only sure provision for himself and his family . His own well - being and ...
... prosperity is his own pros- perity , that of his family , that of his children . In providing for it , and seeking to promote it , he is ma- king the best and only sure provision for himself and his family . His own well - being and ...
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... prosperity of a neighboring state , which stands in the way of that of his own ? There is no doubt , I presume , what answer the histo- ry of nations and of governments will report to these questions . But christian morality is of a ...
... prosperity of a neighboring state , which stands in the way of that of his own ? There is no doubt , I presume , what answer the histo- ry of nations and of governments will report to these questions . But christian morality is of a ...
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... prosperity by conquest , op- pression , or slavery ; or by any methods of checking the prosperity of a rival state , bringing a great evil upon it for the sake of some benefit to itself , or draw- ing off to itself the sources of its ...
... prosperity by conquest , op- pression , or slavery ; or by any methods of checking the prosperity of a rival state , bringing a great evil upon it for the sake of some benefit to itself , or draw- ing off to itself the sources of its ...
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affections authority benevolence blessings cause character CHARLES CALHOUN Christ Christian patriotism Christianity church citizens civil government civil rulers claims clergy Commonwealth Commonwealth of Massachusetts conscience crime danger Deist discourse distinctions divine doctrine duty earth enlightened equal evil exert existence faithful fathers fear feel freedom gion give glory gospel GOVERNOR hand happiness heart heaven holy HONORABLE COUNCIL hope human individual influence institutions intellectual interests irreligion Jews kingdom knowledge Kyky labor land laws legislation LEVI LINCOLN liberal liberty LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ligion Lord Massachusetts means ment mind ministers of religion moral motives nations nature never object occasion opinion party passions patriotism political present principles prosperity Puritans regard relations religion religious religious habits republican respect righteousness sacred secure SERMON social society soul Sparta spect spirit suffer things tion true truth unto virtue wealth wisdom wise worship
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Page 21 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 23 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 10 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 6 - ... and It is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 6 - If it were a matter of wrong, or ' wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should ' bear with you : but if it be a question of words and ' names, and of your law, look ye to it ; for I will be no
Page 1 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 6 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world...
Page 6 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors — It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 6 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 1 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.