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... moral and religious probation , is often beset with such cares and difficulties , that men , if left entirely to them- selves , could not pass through their pilgrimage without being almost overwhelmed . God is then especially our refuge ...
... moral and religious probation , is often beset with such cares and difficulties , that men , if left entirely to them- selves , could not pass through their pilgrimage without being almost overwhelmed . God is then especially our refuge ...
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... moral government of the world . Those to whom affluence is denied , escape from the cares and the particular vices to which the wealthy are exposed ; —and if they enjoy peace of conscience , a good understanding , and a pious heart ...
... moral government of the world . Those to whom affluence is denied , escape from the cares and the particular vices to which the wealthy are exposed ; —and if they enjoy peace of conscience , a good understanding , and a pious heart ...
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... moral instinct of our nature . The beauty of the one , and the deformity of the other , are , in a manner , ap- parent to our senses , without much appeal to reason . The convenience , and the obligation , of eschewing what is evil ...
... moral instinct of our nature . The beauty of the one , and the deformity of the other , are , in a manner , ap- parent to our senses , without much appeal to reason . The convenience , and the obligation , of eschewing what is evil ...
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... morality a part of religion . We possess , then , every means of knowing our duty . We are aware also that that duty is incumbent upon us as individuals , that each of us is personally responsible for his own acts , and that " to his ...
... morality a part of religion . We possess , then , every means of knowing our duty . We are aware also that that duty is incumbent upon us as individuals , that each of us is personally responsible for his own acts , and that " to his ...
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... Our appetites and senses were implanted in us for the natural ends of animal sup- port and preservation , as well as to be subservient to * Eurip . Phon . 534 . i 1 the greater purposes of our moral and religious probation .
... Our appetites and senses were implanted in us for the natural ends of animal sup- port and preservation , as well as to be subservient to * Eurip . Phon . 534 . i 1 the greater purposes of our moral and religious probation .
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Page 157 - And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Page 10 - Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 144 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Page 217 - Behold my servant, whom I have chosen ; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased : I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. 19 He shall not strive, nor cry ; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
Page 359 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 294 - Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 324 - And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him, and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem, into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.
Page 379 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Page 144 - Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; " lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. " For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 64 - And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.