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... spirits . They perhaps admit that it may be useful to the multitude , as a principle of restraint from disorders and crimes ; and that to persons of a peculiar turn of mind it may afford consolation under the distresses of life : but ...
... spirits . They perhaps admit that it may be useful to the multitude , as a principle of restraint from disorders and crimes ; and that to persons of a peculiar turn of mind it may afford consolation under the distresses of life : but ...
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... spirit . They serve God as they would serve a proud master , who may be flattered by their prostrations , appeased by their gifts , and gained by loud protestations of attach- ment to his interest , and of enmity to all whom they ...
... spirit . They serve God as they would serve a proud master , who may be flattered by their prostrations , appeased by their gifts , and gained by loud protestations of attach- ment to his interest , and of enmity to all whom they ...
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... spirits of just men made perfect ; where , we are assured , they who have been eminent in righteousness shall shine as the brightness of the firmament , and as the stars for ever and ever * .- Earthly honours are both short- lived in ...
... spirits of just men made perfect ; where , we are assured , they who have been eminent in righteousness shall shine as the brightness of the firmament , and as the stars for ever and ever * .- Earthly honours are both short- lived in ...
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... spirit of our holy reli- SERMON gion appears in nothing more than in the care it hath taken to enforce on men the social duties of life . This is one of the clearest characteristics of its being a reli- gion whose origin is divine : For ...
... spirit of our holy reli- SERMON gion appears in nothing more than in the care it hath taken to enforce on men the social duties of life . This is one of the clearest characteristics of its being a reli- gion whose origin is divine : For ...
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... spirit , and was troubled . He knew that he was about to remove the cause of their distress , by re- calling Lazarus to life ; yet , in the moment of grief , his heart sympathised with theirs ; and , together with the weeping friends ...
... spirit , and was troubled . He knew that he was about to remove the cause of their distress , by re- calling Lazarus to life ; yet , in the moment of grief , his heart sympathised with theirs ; and , together with the weeping friends ...
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