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... its genuine influ- ence , it purifies legislation , checks the abuse of authority , and tends to liberate mankind from all op- pressive exaction and degrading restraint . Contemplate it in the civil ruler . He feels that 10.
... its genuine influ- ence , it purifies legislation , checks the abuse of authority , and tends to liberate mankind from all op- pressive exaction and degrading restraint . Contemplate it in the civil ruler . He feels that 10.
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... ruler , raised apparently above the sway of ordinary motives , feel yet the obligation of religious motive , and be prompted to every salutary and honorable effort for the good of the community - to promote which good he has been thus ...
... ruler , raised apparently above the sway of ordinary motives , feel yet the obligation of religious motive , and be prompted to every salutary and honorable effort for the good of the community - to promote which good he has been thus ...
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... rulers over you . So , after the lapse of a thousand years , an indignant prophet * denounces thus a right- eous malediction in the name of his Lord : if ye * Malachi . offer the blind for sacrifice , is it not evil 12.
... rulers over you . So , after the lapse of a thousand years , an indignant prophet * denounces thus a right- eous malediction in the name of his Lord : if ye * Malachi . offer the blind for sacrifice , is it not evil 12.
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... rulers ; as it suggests a principle , which should serve as a guide to them , in all their endeavors to promote the public good . While our religion teaches expressly the doctrine of the text , the spirit which it every where inculcates ...
... rulers ; as it suggests a principle , which should serve as a guide to them , in all their endeavors to promote the public good . While our religion teaches expressly the doctrine of the text , the spirit which it every where inculcates ...
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... rulers of a christian community will keep in view in all their exertions for the public good . In the first place , in all measures , which have any influ- ence on the relations of the whole , or the mutual rela- tions of the several ...
... rulers of a christian community will keep in view in all their exertions for the public good . In the first place , in all measures , which have any influ- ence on the relations of the whole , or the mutual rela- tions of the several ...
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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.