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Apostle argument attention Bible called cause cere cerns character Chris Christ Christian Church condemned connexion conscience consequences considered dancing dard defend deportment designed distinction Divine duty effect engagements equally eternal evangelical truth evil example exer expediency fashionable amuse favour feelings frequent furnish gagement Gospel habits heart holy House of Bishops inconsistent influence inquiry interests ject Jesus Christ less ligion Mammon matter means ment mind mischief moral nature ness never nexion opinion passions persons piety pious plain Plato plays plea pleasure popular practice precepts Presbyterian present day principles profes profession professor of religion pular pursuits question quire racter reason recreations Redeemer religious remarks rendered respect sacred scenes Scripture sentiment serious sions society spiritual stage supposed temper temptation tendency Theatre theatrical ther Thespis thing thou thought tian tion trifling vice views virtue Wealth of Nations whole words worldly writer wrong
Popular passages
Page 135 - For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
Page 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 137 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 98 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 134 - But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not, for his sake that shewed it and for conscience...
Page 180 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 137 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 51 - The disgust which vice gives him at first soon wears off, to make way for new notions, more liberal, in his opinion, by which a sovereign contempt of religion, and a declared war upon the chastity of wives, maids, and widows, are converted from being infamous vices to be fashionable virtues. The infection spreads gradually through all ranks and becomes universal. How gladly would I listen to any one who should undertake to prove that what I have been describing is chimerical ! But the dissoluteness...
Page 83 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 126 - And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.