Sermons, on Philosophical, Evangelical, and Practical Subjects ...Mack & Andrus, 1827 - 400 pages |
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... person of information can deny , and the same might be said concerning all past ages . When we consider the strange worship of Heathen nations , and their base and scandalous sacrifices , for the making of an atonement for sin , that ...
... person of information can deny , and the same might be said concerning all past ages . When we consider the strange worship of Heathen nations , and their base and scandalous sacrifices , for the making of an atonement for sin , that ...
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... person , that is dumb , or deprived the gift of speech , and then we may have some just views of the vast superiority , and striking difference , which exist between the power of the human voice , and those mere sounds of nature , of ...
... person , that is dumb , or deprived the gift of speech , and then we may have some just views of the vast superiority , and striking difference , which exist between the power of the human voice , and those mere sounds of nature , of ...
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... person , and lineaments to the features more or less strongly marked , as far as the cause is found to operate . On this same principle we may account for the dark and brown complexion , and the coarseness and roughness of the ...
... person , and lineaments to the features more or less strongly marked , as far as the cause is found to operate . On this same principle we may account for the dark and brown complexion , and the coarseness and roughness of the ...
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... is not my design in this place to bring to view the loathsome spectacle of persons in the most degrading state of intoxication . Neither to draw a picture of wretchedness in consequence of fortune squandered 40 SERMON III .
... is not my design in this place to bring to view the loathsome spectacle of persons in the most degrading state of intoxication . Neither to draw a picture of wretchedness in consequence of fortune squandered 40 SERMON III .
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... person injured , should not retali- ate , yet others see the failings , and will publish the faults , of those who render their tongues instruments of injury to their fellow men . Then from motives of policy , a prudent man would guard ...
... person injured , should not retali- ate , yet others see the failings , and will publish the faults , of those who render their tongues instruments of injury to their fellow men . Then from motives of policy , a prudent man would guard ...
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Page 150 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God : and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 90 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 145 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Page 98 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 299 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Page 256 - And he said also unto his disciples ; There was a certain rich man which had a steward ; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him and said unto him ; How is it that I hear this of thee ? give an account of thy stewardship ; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Page 221 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Page 333 - Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins.
Page 338 - His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow ; and his eyes were as a flame of fire ; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars ; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword; and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Page 256 - Then said he to another, And how much owest thou ? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely : for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.