Twelve Sermons on Hypocrisy and Cruelty: Drunkenness, Bribery, the Rights of the Poor, Unjust Judges, the Sluggard, Murder, Gaming, Public Robbery, the Unnatural Mother, Forbidden Marriage, Parsons and TithesAuthor, 1828 - 240 pages |
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... especially with re- gard to religious matters . It is a pretending to feel , what we do not feel , to believe what we do not be- lieve , to practise what we do not practise . It is an odious vice it is greatly mischievous , because , by ...
... especially with re- gard to religious matters . It is a pretending to feel , what we do not feel , to believe what we do not be- lieve , to practise what we do not practise . It is an odious vice it is greatly mischievous , because , by ...
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... especially to hold up as fabu- lous , a thing which the mass of mankind have regarded , not only in the most serious light , but as an object worthy of their constant attention all their life through . To this may be added , that no ...
... especially to hold up as fabu- lous , a thing which the mass of mankind have regarded , not only in the most serious light , but as an object worthy of their constant attention all their life through . To this may be added , that no ...
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... especially when we see him seriously arraigned upon such an imputation , we ought not to decide hastily against him : common justice demands that we coolly and impartially enquire into the grounds of the accusation ; that we become ...
... especially when we see him seriously arraigned upon such an imputation , we ought not to decide hastily against him : common justice demands that we coolly and impartially enquire into the grounds of the accusation ; that we become ...
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... in every other case where a charge is preferred against his neighbour , but more especially in this case , is , to divest himself wholly of all self love , of all the considerations which would make HYPOCRISY ANd Cruelty . 19.
... in every other case where a charge is preferred against his neighbour , but more especially in this case , is , to divest himself wholly of all self love , of all the considerations which would make HYPOCRISY ANd Cruelty . 19.
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... especially by Priests themselves , that the flock do not regard the pastor as a person of understanding superior to their own ; be- cause to contend for the affirmative of that proposition , would be to declare the functions of the ...
... especially by Priests themselves , that the flock do not regard the pastor as a person of understanding superior to their own ; be- cause to contend for the affirmative of that proposition , would be to declare the functions of the ...
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Page 41 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 117 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 73 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat...
Page 245 - Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them ; Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters ; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters ; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Page 147 - And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Page 288 - Lord; thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Page 27 - Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith and I have works ; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.
Page 152 - Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Page 200 - And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Page 3 - Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?