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... kind and firm on occasions of this sort . We have only to abandon our concern for seri- ous truths , and then may be indulgent to the worst enormities .-- But this were a cruel charity , and a farce too ; and we must seek a much surer ...
... kind and firm on occasions of this sort . We have only to abandon our concern for seri- ous truths , and then may be indulgent to the worst enormities .-- But this were a cruel charity , and a farce too ; and we must seek a much surer ...
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Isaac Taylor. that your spiritual delinquencies are not of so fatal a kind as to put in danger your personal salvation ( an assumption , by the way , always hazardous ) and let it be granted that you are chargeable only with certain ...
Isaac Taylor. that your spiritual delinquencies are not of so fatal a kind as to put in danger your personal salvation ( an assumption , by the way , always hazardous ) and let it be granted that you are chargeable only with certain ...
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... kind , more influence than it is actually found to exert over the passions and the imagination of the bulk of mankind . Education does indeed pro- duce , in full , its proper effect to moderate the emotions , and as a preservative ...
... kind , more influence than it is actually found to exert over the passions and the imagination of the bulk of mankind . Education does indeed pro- duce , in full , its proper effect to moderate the emotions , and as a preservative ...
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... been answered when the faculties have received that degree and kind of stimulus which the exigency of the moment demanded ; and their continuance must be always ( if it were nothing worse ) a waste and 34 FANATICISM .
... been answered when the faculties have received that degree and kind of stimulus which the exigency of the moment demanded ; and their continuance must be always ( if it were nothing worse ) a waste and 34 FANATICISM .
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... kind ; and they actually avail to put out of view the exagge- rations which self - love has added to the sense of wrong . Thus it is that some , who , in no other case would for a moment harbour so hateful and torturing a passion ...
... kind ; and they actually avail to put out of view the exagge- rations which self - love has added to the sense of wrong . Thus it is that some , who , in no other case would for a moment harbour so hateful and torturing a passion ...
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Page 423 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves .to the Lord, To serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, To be his servants, Every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, And taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, And make them joyful in my house of prayer: Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; For mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Page 410 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 509 - The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
Page 474 - For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah...
Page 390 - Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Page 422 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 420 - GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
Page 404 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto Me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth: they are a trouble unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 408 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 407 - Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for" the time to come for ever and ever...