Sermons Upon the Following Subjects: The Natural Advantages of Men for Attaining to the Knowledge and Practice of Religion ...A. Millar, 1750 |
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... ment , and its Influence for engaging Men to Repent- ance . The Tendency of Chriftianity to promote the Happiness of Mankind in this present Life . The Loving Our Saviour above all the Objects of our Affection in this World . The ...
... ment , and its Influence for engaging Men to Repent- ance . The Tendency of Chriftianity to promote the Happiness of Mankind in this present Life . The Loving Our Saviour above all the Objects of our Affection in this World . The ...
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... ment of the feveral Objects of their Defires for promoting it ; their Self - love will then co- operate with the nobler Principles of their Na- ture , and lead them to the fame courfe of Life which their Confciences approve and re ...
... ment of the feveral Objects of their Defires for promoting it ; their Self - love will then co- operate with the nobler Principles of their Na- ture , and lead them to the fame courfe of Life which their Confciences approve and re ...
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... ment of the noble Powers and Difpofitions of Nature which might be made of them ; they are far from exercifing their Reafon carefully for framing any thing like a juft and well - di- gefted Scheme of Religion , or for finding out the ...
... ment of the noble Powers and Difpofitions of Nature which might be made of them ; they are far from exercifing their Reafon carefully for framing any thing like a juft and well - di- gefted Scheme of Religion , or for finding out the ...
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... ment . And our Happiness will be rendered most compleat from our hope of the Appro- bation of that great Being , who is incompa- rably the best Judge of the true merit of Men , and on whom we entirely depend for our Ex- istence and all ...
... ment . And our Happiness will be rendered most compleat from our hope of the Appro- bation of that great Being , who is incompa- rably the best Judge of the true merit of Men , and on whom we entirely depend for our Ex- istence and all ...
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... ment of the Offences which Men commit against us , the abating as much as we can of the Punishment to which the Rigour of Juftice would expose them , and the putting them to no more pain and uneafiness than is neceffary for the ...
... ment of the Offences which Men commit against us , the abating as much as we can of the Punishment to which the Rigour of Juftice would expose them , and the putting them to no more pain and uneafiness than is neceffary for the ...
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Page 84 - 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.
Page 51 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 84 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page vi - But woe unto you, Pharisees ! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 84 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 316 - For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 242 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 371 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 234 - To be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as we know that our labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Page 85 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...