The Works of Hannah More: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published ...E. Earle, 1818 |
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... once holy and profligate , shall we wonder if the adoration was at once devout and impure ? The worshipper could not commit a crime but he might vindicate it by the example of some deity ; he could not gratify a sinful appetite of which ...
... once holy and profligate , shall we wonder if the adoration was at once devout and impure ? The worshipper could not commit a crime but he might vindicate it by the example of some deity ; he could not gratify a sinful appetite of which ...
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... once a proof of their humility and of their ve- racity . The conversion of Saint Matthew is slightly related by himself , and in the most modest terms . He simply says , speaking in the third person ; ' Je- sus saw a man named Matthew ...
... once a proof of their humility and of their ve- racity . The conversion of Saint Matthew is slightly related by himself , and in the most modest terms . He simply says , speaking in the third person ; ' Je- sus saw a man named Matthew ...
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... once landed , and safe on the shores of his own Ithaca , the reader's mind is satisfied , for the object of his anxiety is at rest . But not so ends the tale of the christian hero . EPISTOLARY WRITERS . 33 Chap III-On the Epistolary ...
... once landed , and safe on the shores of his own Ithaca , the reader's mind is satisfied , for the object of his anxiety is at rest . But not so ends the tale of the christian hero . EPISTOLARY WRITERS . 33 Chap III-On the Epistolary ...
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... once an act of God's omnipotence , and of his mercy . Thus faith , which appears to be so easy , is of all things the most difficult ; -which seems to be so com- mon , is of all things most rare . To consider how re- luctant the human ...
... once an act of God's omnipotence , and of his mercy . Thus faith , which appears to be so easy , is of all things the most difficult ; -which seems to be so com- mon , is of all things most rare . To consider how re- luctant the human ...
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... once in his writings and his life ! In his writings he declares , in one short sen- tence , of all such principles , ' their condemnation is just . ' In his life he suffered evil to extremity , that good might be produced ; but never ...
... once in his writings and his life ! In his writings he declares , in one short sen- tence , of all such principles , ' their condemnation is just . ' In his life he suffered evil to extremity , that good might be produced ; but never ...
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Page 71 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 169 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 83 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you: and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 282 - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Page 184 - The oppressor holds His body bound ; but knows not what a range His spirit takes, unconscious of a chain ; And that to bind him is a vain attempt, Whom God delights in, and in whom he dwells.
Page 142 - Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us ; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men : 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always : for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Page 267 - Behold I show you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again ; but we shall not all be changed : in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet ; for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible ; and we shall be changed.
Page 61 - Whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report ; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Page 304 - That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. 15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Page 311 - One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.