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Page iv
... moral government . Though , in every instance of its existence , itself brief and transitory , and to cease with the last generation of men on the earth , its influences go down , from generation to generation and from age to age , into ...
... moral government . Though , in every instance of its existence , itself brief and transitory , and to cease with the last generation of men on the earth , its influences go down , from generation to generation and from age to age , into ...
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... moral improvement of the mass of the children of the ignorant and irreligious portions of the community are not remitted , but prosecuted with increased vigor , more direct attention should not be given to the parents of such children ...
... moral improvement of the mass of the children of the ignorant and irreligious portions of the community are not remitted , but prosecuted with increased vigor , more direct attention should not be given to the parents of such children ...
Page vii
... moral truth . The great ex- pectations which are entertained , they would found upon the extra- ordinary discoveries ... morals be allowed a still more paramount and universal influence — an influence the greater in proportion as matter ...
... moral truth . The great ex- pectations which are entertained , they would found upon the extra- ordinary discoveries ... morals be allowed a still more paramount and universal influence — an influence the greater in proportion as matter ...
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... morals . Discoveries in the former are often flatter- ing to human vanity , and conducive to the comfort or convenience of this transitory life only . Morals , if they deserve the name , carry us above the starry firmament , and point ...
... morals . Discoveries in the former are often flatter- ing to human vanity , and conducive to the comfort or convenience of this transitory life only . Morals , if they deserve the name , carry us above the starry firmament , and point ...
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... moral health of families , in any nation , whatever be its form of political government ; and to the best interests of the kingdom of God , now on its way to that purity and peace which assuredly await it , before time shall end . But ...
... moral health of families , in any nation , whatever be its form of political government ; and to the best interests of the kingdom of God , now on its way to that purity and peace which assuredly await it , before time shall end . But ...
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Page 201 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 232 - And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Page 316 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Page 52 - Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Page 42 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 101 - The acceptance of and continuance hitherto in the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn.
Page 397 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 161 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 404 - Incline your ear, and come unto me : hear, and your soul shall live ; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Page 127 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.