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... guilt . The great motives that produce constancy and firmness of action , must be of a palpable and striking kind . A divine Legislator , uttering his voice from heaven ; an omniscient Witness , beholding us in all our retreats ; an ...
... guilt . The great motives that produce constancy and firmness of action , must be of a palpable and striking kind . A divine Legislator , uttering his voice from heaven ; an omniscient Witness , beholding us in all our retreats ; an ...
Page 22
... guilt will necessarily present it ? Then the recollection of the past becomes dreadful . It exhibits to him a life thrown away on vanities and follies , or consumed in flagitiousness and sin ; no sta- tion properly supported ; no ...
... guilt will necessarily present it ? Then the recollection of the past becomes dreadful . It exhibits to him a life thrown away on vanities and follies , or consumed in flagitiousness and sin ; no sta- tion properly supported ; no ...
Page 42
... guilt mingles with prosperity , a certain gloom and heaviness enter along with it . Vicious intrigues never fail to entangle and embarrass those who engage in them . But innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; leaves it open to ...
... guilt mingles with prosperity , a certain gloom and heaviness enter along with it . Vicious intrigues never fail to entangle and embarrass those who engage in them . But innocence confers ease and freedom on the mind ; leaves it open to ...
Page 57
... not his attachment to worldly objects the great source both of his misery and his guilt ? Employed in perpetual contemplation of heavenly objects , and in preparation for the enjoyment of them , would he SERM . IV . 57 OF A FUTURE STATE .
... not his attachment to worldly objects the great source both of his misery and his guilt ? Employed in perpetual contemplation of heavenly objects , and in preparation for the enjoyment of them , would he SERM . IV . 57 OF A FUTURE STATE .
Page 70
... guilt of mankind ; the hour of accomplishing prophecies , types , and symbols , which had been carried on through a series of ages ; the hour of con- cluding the old , and of introducing to the world the new dispensation of religion ...
... guilt of mankind ; the hour of accomplishing prophecies , types , and symbols , which had been carried on through a series of ages ; the hour of con- cluding the old , and of introducing to the world the new dispensation of religion ...
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