Sermons, Volume 5T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814 - Presbyterian Church |
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... feels ? The questions you are to put , if the man be in prosperity are not , How much wealth does such a man possess ? but , How does he enjoy it ? If he be in adversity , not , What is his distress ? but , How does he bear it ? Hence ...
... feels ? The questions you are to put , if the man be in prosperity are not , How much wealth does such a man possess ? but , How does he enjoy it ? If he be in adversity , not , What is his distress ? but , How does he bear it ? Hence ...
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... feel for a tyrant , but the reve- rence which children have for the best parent , or subjects for the best sovereign ; the veneration which necessarily enters into the love we bear to a Being of a superiour order ; it is to fear the ...
... feel for a tyrant , but the reve- rence which children have for the best parent , or subjects for the best sovereign ; the veneration which necessarily enters into the love we bear to a Being of a superiour order ; it is to fear the ...
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... feel- ing of his goodness . It is impossible to think of God at all , with- out conceiving him as the benefactor of man- kind . Mysterious as this world is in many of its appearances , it nevertheless carries , on II . on the whole , a ...
... feel- ing of his goodness . It is impossible to think of God at all , with- out conceiving him as the benefactor of man- kind . Mysterious as this world is in many of its appearances , it nevertheless carries , on II . on the whole , a ...
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... feels no gratitude to that Being who has brought him forth to enjoy this wonderful scene . But the gratitude of a good naturally go farther than this . D 2 man will He will think II . SERMON think not only of the benefits which the ...
... feels no gratitude to that Being who has brought him forth to enjoy this wonderful scene . But the gratitude of a good naturally go farther than this . D 2 man will He will think II . SERMON think not only of the benefits which the ...
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... feels the dart that is fixed in his breast , but is unable to extract it . But the case becomes infinitely worse , if the passion which has seized a man be of the vicious and malignant kind . Let him be placed in the most prosperous ...
... feels the dart that is fixed in his breast , but is unable to extract it . But the case becomes infinitely worse , if the passion which has seized a man be of the vicious and malignant kind . Let him be placed in the most prosperous ...
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