The Christian Repository, Volume 4D. Watson, 1824 |
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... treated : idolized when it serves our purpose , and trampled upon the moment it operates against us . Strange , that men should attempt to reason us out of our reason ; and with the Bible in their hands Christian Repository . 18.
... treated : idolized when it serves our purpose , and trampled upon the moment it operates against us . Strange , that men should attempt to reason us out of our reason ; and with the Bible in their hands Christian Repository . 18.
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our reason ; and with the Bible in their hands , think to convince us , that religion is a very unreasonable thing . But singular as this conduct is , its cause is obvious . Men have thought that to ... hand 16 Christian Repository .
our reason ; and with the Bible in their hands , think to convince us , that religion is a very unreasonable thing . But singular as this conduct is , its cause is obvious . Men have thought that to ... hand 16 Christian Repository .
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been perverted to defend them . On the one hand , we see the most stupid weakness ; and on the other , an extraordinary power employed in supporting that ve- ry weakness and stupidity . If we were required to specify some remarkable ...
been perverted to defend them . On the one hand , we see the most stupid weakness ; and on the other , an extraordinary power employed in supporting that ve- ry weakness and stupidity . If we were required to specify some remarkable ...
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... hand to hand , and the thousand manifestations of good feeling which are flowing perpetually from breast to breast ; and then with a grave face declare that our nature is utterly vile , and that , with the exception of a few who have ...
... hand to hand , and the thousand manifestations of good feeling which are flowing perpetually from breast to breast ; and then with a grave face declare that our nature is utterly vile , and that , with the exception of a few who have ...
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... hand ; and we are incited by passions and surrounded with temptations , on the other . Ac- cording to these differing principles and circumstan- ces , our characters are moulded . The influence of both , on the lives of men , and the ...
... hand ; and we are incited by passions and surrounded with temptations , on the other . Ac- cording to these differing principles and circumstan- ces , our characters are moulded . The influence of both , on the lives of men , and the ...
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Page 128 - But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
Page 8 - God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 169 - For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying : — Surely blessing I will bless thee, And multiplying I will multiply thee.
Page 33 - WHOSOEVER will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith, which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 154 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 174 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 7 - But Christ as a son over his own house ; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Page 30 - When the farmer came down to breakfast that morning, upon looking at the clock, he declared that his watch had gained half an hour in the night. MORAL. 9 A celebrated modern writer says, " Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Page 170 - His counsel, confirmed it by an oath : that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...
Page 218 - And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me : for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched ; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.