Peace, Permanent and Universal: Its Practicability, Value, and Consistency with Divine Revelation: a Prize EssaySaunders and Otley, 1841 - 354 pages |
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... heart of a fellow creature . As well might the butcher parade before us his knife , or the executioner his axe or halter . Allow war to be necessary , still it is a horrible necessity , a work to fill a good man with anguish of spirit ...
... heart of a fellow creature . As well might the butcher parade before us his knife , or the executioner his axe or halter . Allow war to be necessary , still it is a horrible necessity , a work to fill a good man with anguish of spirit ...
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... hearts of those who are the subjects of it , -not of any blind or overruling fatality which will come upon the earth at some distant period of its history , and about which we of the present day have nothing to do but to look silently ...
... hearts of those who are the subjects of it , -not of any blind or overruling fatality which will come upon the earth at some distant period of its history , and about which we of the present day have nothing to do but to look silently ...
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... heart , frozen with horror , recoils at the fatal disaster which ensued . Almost all these wretched victims perished ! " The city was then given up to pillage , and " to all the excesses of lust were added the highest depravity and ...
... heart , frozen with horror , recoils at the fatal disaster which ensued . Almost all these wretched victims perished ! " The city was then given up to pillage , and " to all the excesses of lust were added the highest depravity and ...
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... heart to bleed poverty , famine , pestilence , are among the inci- dents to war . Blood forms the track ; desolation hovers around ; gloom and ruin threaten in the distant prospect . But there exist other powers destructive to life ...
... heart to bleed poverty , famine , pestilence , are among the inci- dents to war . Blood forms the track ; desolation hovers around ; gloom and ruin threaten in the distant prospect . But there exist other powers destructive to life ...
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... heart , yet elevate and purify the soul ; grief calls forth sympathy , and while it connects man to man , binds him also more closely to his Maker . " No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous , but grievous : nevertheless ...
... heart , yet elevate and purify the soul ; grief calls forth sympathy , and while it connects man to man , binds him also more closely to his Maker . " No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous , but grievous : nevertheless ...
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Page 41 - The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light ; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Page 288 - Mercy and truth are met together ; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Page 78 - I love God," and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
Page 82 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, "Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment." But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, "Raca," shall be in danger of the council.
Page 104 - Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Page 87 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath : for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Page 52 - He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he Is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Page 47 - Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein : Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice Before the LORD : for HE cometh, For HE cometh to judge the earth : HE shall judge the world with righteousness, And the people with his truth.
Page 100 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye : and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 40 - Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound : they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.