The Works of William E. Channing, D. D.James Munroe, 1841 - Antislavery movements |
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... parent knows , when habitually awakened , is always found to debase the mind , to break the spirit , to give tameness to the character , and to chill the best affections . Perhaps one cause of the limited influence of Christianity , is ...
... parent knows , when habitually awakened , is always found to debase the mind , to break the spirit , to give tameness to the character , and to chill the best affections . Perhaps one cause of the limited influence of Christianity , is ...
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... countenance , in the unprotected orphan , in the aged parent , in affection cherishing the memory of the slain , and weeping that it could not min- ister to their last pangs . I have asked you to traverse , in thought , 32 WAR .
... countenance , in the unprotected orphan , in the aged parent , in affection cherishing the memory of the slain , and weeping that it could not min- ister to their last pangs . I have asked you to traverse , in thought , 32 WAR .
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... parents ; and how ingeniously they extract , from detached passages , mysterious doctrines about the divine nature . We do not blame them for reasoning so abundantly , but for violating the fundamental rules of reasoning , for sacri ...
... parents ; and how ingeniously they extract , from detached passages , mysterious doctrines about the divine nature . We do not blame them for reasoning so abundantly , but for violating the fundamental rules of reasoning , for sacri ...
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... retribution threatened in God's Word . To give our views of God in one word , we believe in his Parental character . We ascribe to him , not only Prot , Alue the name , but the dispositions and 84 UNITARIAN CHRISTIANITY .
... retribution threatened in God's Word . To give our views of God in one word , we believe in his Parental character . We ascribe to him , not only Prot , Alue the name , but the dispositions and 84 UNITARIAN CHRISTIANITY .
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... parental character , and moral government , which are admirably fitted to reclaim the world from idolatry and impiety , to the knowledge , love , and obedience of the Creator ; by his promises of pardon to the penitent , and of divine ...
... parental character , and moral government , which are admirably fitted to reclaim the world from idolatry and impiety , to the knowledge , love , and obedience of the Creator ; by his promises of pardon to the penitent , and of divine ...
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Page 105 - There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews : The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God ; for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Page 10 - For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Page 7 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 174 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 287 - Honour thy father and thy mother (which is the first commandment with promise), that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the earth.
Page 175 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 163 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Page 62 - Jewish, the completion of a vast scheme of providence, requiring great extent of view in the reader. Still more, the Bible treats of subjects on which we receive ideas from other sources besides itself; such subjects as the nature, passions, relations, and duties of man ; and it expects us to restrain and modify its language by the known truths, which observation and experience furnish on these topics.
Page 62 - Every proposition is linked with others, and is to be compared with others ; that its full and precise import may be understood. Nothing stands alone. The New Testament is built on the Old. The Christian dispensation is a continuation of the Jewish, the completion of a vast scheme of providence, requiring great extent of view in the reader. Still more, the Bible treats of subjects on which we receive ideas from other sources besides itself; such subjects as the nature, passions, relations, and duties...
Page 208 - I have no anxiety to wear the livery of any party. I, indeed, take cheerfully the name of a Unitarian, because unwearied efforts are used to raise against it a popular cry ; and I have not so learned Christ as to shrink from reproaches cast on what I deem his truth.