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... piety , excellence , moral greatness , spirit- ual glory ; and he , who effectually labours for these , is taking part with God , in God's noblest work . The christian ministry , then , which has for its end men's spiritual improvement ...
... piety , excellence , moral greatness , spirit- ual glory ; and he , who effectually labours for these , is taking part with God , in God's noblest work . The christian ministry , then , which has for its end men's spiritual improvement ...
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... piety , very hostile to the free expansion and full enjoyment of all our faculties and social affections . Great im- provements indeed in this particular are taking place among Christians of almost every denomination . Re- ligion has ...
... piety , very hostile to the free expansion and full enjoyment of all our faculties and social affections . Great im- provements indeed in this particular are taking place among Christians of almost every denomination . Re- ligion has ...
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... piety at present is robbed in no small degree of its singleness , energy , and happiness , by the multipli- cation in the church of objects of supreme worship ; by the division of the one God into three persons , who sustain different ...
... piety at present is robbed in no small degree of its singleness , energy , and happiness , by the multipli- cation in the church of objects of supreme worship ; by the division of the one God into three persons , who sustain different ...
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... piety , a piety founded in confiding views of God's parental character , and manifested in a charity corresponding to God's un- bounded and ever active love . In addition to these efforts , let him strive to communicate the just princi ...
... piety , a piety founded in confiding views of God's parental character , and manifested in a charity corresponding to God's un- bounded and ever active love . In addition to these efforts , let him strive to communicate the just princi ...
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... piety , regard must be had to difference of circumstances . It would argue little wisdom or candour , to expect the same freedom from luxury and dissipation in this opulent and flourishing community , as marked the first settlement of ...
... piety , regard must be had to difference of circumstances . It would argue little wisdom or candour , to expect the same freedom from luxury and dissipation in this opulent and flourishing community , as marked the first settlement of ...
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Page 17 - 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 19 - 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 5 - 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. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Page 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Page 19 - The first of August came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work until the next Monday. The day was chiefly spent, by the great mass of negroes, in the churches and chapels.
Page 2 - CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the eleventh day of November, AD 1830, in the fiftyfifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Gray & Bowen, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof...
Page 27 - ... civil and religious establishments have for ages conspired to crush it. I know its history. I shut my eyes on none of its weaknesses and crimes. I understand the proofs, by which despotism demonstrates, that man is a wild beast, in want of a master, and only safe in chains. But injured, trampled on, and scorned as our nature is, I still turn to it with intense sympathy and strong hope. The signatures of its origin and its end are impressed too deeply to be ever wholly effaced.
Page 10 - Light would be for ever hidden from us did not kindred rays dawn and brighten within us. God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth./ The same is true of God's goodness.
Page 30 - ... to it new victories. He came in the reformation of the Church. He came on this day four years ago, when, through his religion, eight hundred thousand men were raised from the lowest degradation to the rights, and dignity, and fellowship of men. Christ's outward appearance is of little moment compared with the brighter manifestation of his spirit. The Christian, whose inward eyes and ears are touched by God, discerns the coming of Christ, hears the sound of his chariot-wheels and the voice of...