Twelve Sermons: On 1. Hypocrisy and Cruelty. 2. Drunkenness. 3. Bribery. 4. The Rights of the Poor. 5. Unjust Judges. 6. The Sluggard. 7. Murder. 8. Gaming. 9. Public Robbery. 10. The Unnatural Mother. 11. Forbidden Marriage. 12. Parsons and TithesJ.M. Cobbett, 1823 - 295 pages |
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... human beings . At present , however , let me beseech the reader's best attention to that remarkable instance of bypocrisy and cruelty , recorded , in the 21st Chap . of the first Book of Kings , in the history of the tragical death of ...
... human beings . At present , however , let me beseech the reader's best attention to that remarkable instance of bypocrisy and cruelty , recorded , in the 21st Chap . of the first Book of Kings , in the history of the tragical death of ...
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... human pride pushes forward , with volumes of resentment on their tongues , against him , who ventures to treat with levity , and especially to hold up as fabu- lous , a thing which the mass of mankind have regarded , not only in the ...
... human pride pushes forward , with volumes of resentment on their tongues , against him , who ventures to treat with levity , and especially to hold up as fabu- lous , a thing which the mass of mankind have regarded , not only in the ...
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... human nature ; but , thus it is . For the reasons before stated , the hypocrite has only to persuade the people that he is actuated by pious motives , and that the punishment he is inflicting is for the support of religion ; he has only ...
... human nature ; but , thus it is . For the reasons before stated , the hypocrite has only to persuade the people that he is actuated by pious motives , and that the punishment he is inflicting is for the support of religion ; he has only ...
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... But , this is not the light in which religion ought to be viewed . To practise justice , mercy , charity and other virtues , is natural to uncorrupted and under- verted human beings . That which strengthens this natural propensity.
... But , this is not the light in which religion ought to be viewed . To practise justice , mercy , charity and other virtues , is natural to uncorrupted and under- verted human beings . That which strengthens this natural propensity.
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... human beings . That which strengthens this natural propensity , or arrests the effect of corruption and perversion , and does this through the means of reverence for God and an expectation of future re- wards and punishments , is called ...
... human beings . That which strengthens this natural propensity , or arrests the effect of corruption and perversion , and does this through the means of reverence for God and an expectation of future re- wards and punishments , is called ...
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