Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author, Volume 2J. Walker & Company, 1824 |
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... pleasures for evermore . 456 SERMON LVIII . On Curiosity concerning the Affairs of Others . JOHN XXI . 21 , 22. Peter seeing him , saith to Jesus , Lord , and what shall this man do ? Jesus saith unto him , If I will that he tarry till ...
... pleasures for evermore . 456 SERMON LVIII . On Curiosity concerning the Affairs of Others . JOHN XXI . 21 , 22. Peter seeing him , saith to Jesus , Lord , and what shall this man do ? Jesus saith unto him , If I will that he tarry till ...
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... pleasure full vent ; and in committing the most in- human actions , may sometimes imagine that he is doing good service to God . The first - fruits of an evil - thinking spirit are ca- lumny and detraction , by which society is so often ...
... pleasure full vent ; and in committing the most in- human actions , may sometimes imagine that he is doing good service to God . The first - fruits of an evil - thinking spirit are ca- lumny and detraction , by which society is so often ...
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... pleasure . Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms o human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness , who discerns no ob- jects around him but what are ...
... pleasure . Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms o human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness , who discerns no ob- jects around him but what are ...
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... pleasures which remain to man in his present state . How much soever a person may suffer from injustice , he is always in hazard of suffering more from the prosecution of revenge . The violence of an enemy cannot inflict what is equal ...
... pleasures which remain to man in his present state . How much soever a person may suffer from injustice , he is always in hazard of suffering more from the prosecution of revenge . The violence of an enemy cannot inflict what is equal ...
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... pleasure , are perilous circumstances to virtue . When men live among their equals , and are accustomed to encounter the hardships of life , they are of course reminded of their mutual dependence on each other , and of the dependence of ...
... pleasure , are perilous circumstances to virtue . When men live among their equals , and are accustomed to encounter the hardships of life , they are of course reminded of their mutual dependence on each other , and of the dependence of ...
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