Sermons ...: With a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author, Volume 1Sharpe & Son, Edwards & Company, [and others], 1820 - Sermons |
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... thou , then , pretend to be a man of reason , nay , a man of virtue , and yet continue regardless of one of the first and chief dictates of human nature ? Where is thy sensibility to what is right and fit , if that loud voice , which ...
... thou , then , pretend to be a man of reason , nay , a man of virtue , and yet continue regardless of one of the first and chief dictates of human nature ? Where is thy sensibility to what is right and fit , if that loud voice , which ...
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... thou stifled those natural sentiments which it tends to a- waken ? Calling thyself a son , a citizen , a friend ; claiming to be faithful and affection- ate in these relations ; hast thou no sense of SERM . 1. ] PIETY AND MORALITY .
... thou stifled those natural sentiments which it tends to a- waken ? Calling thyself a son , a citizen , a friend ; claiming to be faithful and affection- ate in these relations ; hast thou no sense of SERM . 1. ] PIETY AND MORALITY .
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... thou no sense of what thou owest to thy first Parent , thy highest Sovereign , thy greatest Benefactor ? Can it be consistent with true virtue or honour , to value thyself upon thy regard to inferior obligations , and yet to violate ...
... thou no sense of what thou owest to thy first Parent , thy highest Sovereign , thy greatest Benefactor ? Can it be consistent with true virtue or honour , to value thyself upon thy regard to inferior obligations , and yet to violate ...
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... thou think , upon his account , that thou mightest bring an increase to his glory and felicity , by thy weak and insignificant praises ? Sooner mightest thou increase the splendour of the sun by a lighted taper , or add to the thunder ...
... thou think , upon his account , that thou mightest bring an increase to his glory and felicity , by thy weak and insignificant praises ? Sooner mightest thou increase the splendour of the sun by a lighted taper , or add to the thunder ...
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... thou who hast been disturbing the repose of society by thine ambition or craft ; thou who , to increase thy treasures , has been making the widow and the orphan weep ; darest thou ap- proach God with thy worship and thy prayers , and ...
... thou who hast been disturbing the repose of society by thine ambition or craft ; thou who , to increase thy treasures , has been making the widow and the orphan weep ; darest thou ap- proach God with thy worship and thy prayers , and ...
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Page 237 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 53 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 101 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Page 148 - He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand...
Page 202 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 194 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 146 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 53 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 133 - Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.