The Works of William E. Channing, D. D.James Munroe, 1841 - Antislavery movements |
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... want of affection or esteem for those from whom I differ . I. What are we to understand by " preaching Christ " ? This subject is the more interesting and important , be- cause , I fear , it has often been misunderstood . Many persons ...
... want of affection or esteem for those from whom I differ . I. What are we to understand by " preaching Christ " ? This subject is the more interesting and important , be- cause , I fear , it has often been misunderstood . Many persons ...
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... want of education or capacity confines them to the narrowest views of the Christian system . May I be permitted , with deference and respect , to beseech Christian min- isters not to encourage by example this spirit of censure among ...
... want of education or capacity confines them to the narrowest views of the Christian system . May I be permitted , with deference and respect , to beseech Christian min- isters not to encourage by example this spirit of censure among ...
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... want and despair ; and even yet , the horrors of a single battle are not exhausted . Some of the deepest pangs which it inflicts , are silent , retired , enduring , to be read in the widow's countenance , in the unprotected orphan , in ...
... want and despair ; and even yet , the horrors of a single battle are not exhausted . Some of the deepest pangs which it inflicts , are silent , retired , enduring , to be read in the widow's countenance , in the unprotected orphan , in ...
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... want , and driven to despair by the clamor of his suffering family , becomes a soldier in a cause which he condemns , and thus the country is drained of its most effective population . The people are stripped and reduced , whilst the ...
... want , and driven to despair by the clamor of his suffering family , becomes a soldier in a cause which he condemns , and thus the country is drained of its most effective population . The people are stripped and reduced , whilst the ...
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... want , de- feat , and the most dreadful scourges which Providence sends on a guilty world , are desolating a hostile com- munity . The slaughter of thousands of fellow - beings , instead of awakening pity , flushes them with delirious ...
... want , de- feat , and the most dreadful scourges which Providence sends on a guilty world , are desolating a hostile com- munity . The slaughter of thousands of fellow - beings , instead of awakening pity , flushes them with delirious ...
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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.