Sermons, Volume 4T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1815 |
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... Morality ; while they confine true religion to some favourite tenets and observances of their own , which they consider as comprehend- ing the sum of what is acceptable to God . Such persons show themselves profoundly ignorant of the ...
... Morality ; while they confine true religion to some favourite tenets and observances of their own , which they consider as comprehend- ing the sum of what is acceptable to God . Such persons show themselves profoundly ignorant of the ...
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... moral virtue , but a Christian grace . It acquires additional dignity and energy from being connected with the heavenly state , and the heavenly inhabitants . He mingles with beings of a higher order , while he is discharging his duty ...
... moral virtue , but a Christian grace . It acquires additional dignity and energy from being connected with the heavenly state , and the heavenly inhabitants . He mingles with beings of a higher order , while he is discharging his duty ...
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... moral conduct . They take hold of virtue by pieces and corners only . Few are so de- praved as to be without all sense of duty , and all regard to it . To some moral qua- lities , which appear to them amiable or estimable , almost all ...
... moral conduct . They take hold of virtue by pieces and corners only . Few are so de- praved as to be without all sense of duty , and all regard to it . To some moral qua- lities , which appear to them amiable or estimable , almost all ...
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... moral nature . It affords a complete field for the genuine dis- play of characters ; and gives every man an opportunity to come forth and show what he is . Were the tenor of human con- duct altogether regular and uniform , in- terrupted ...
... moral nature . It affords a complete field for the genuine dis- play of characters ; and gives every man an opportunity to come forth and show what he is . Were the tenor of human con- duct altogether regular and uniform , in- terrupted ...
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... moral world , the intermixture of bad men renders many an exertion necessary , which in a more per- fect state of the world would find no place , but which in the present state of trial is proper and useful . The existence of vice in ...
... moral world , the intermixture of bad men renders many an exertion necessary , which in a more per- fect state of the world would find no place , but which in the present state of trial is proper and useful . The existence of vice in ...
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Page 88 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 90 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Page 97 - Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Page 92 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice ; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Page 175 - He that spared not his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Page 367 - Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 220 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Page 356 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...
Page 204 - O come, let us worship and bow down ; let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For He is our God ; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.
Page 367 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!