An Introduction to Christianity: Designed to Preserve Young People from Irreligion and Vice |
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... regard to the unaccomplished prophecies which respect that happy age . The author has remarked with extreme concern , that among the many dignified preachers , who have distinguished themselves at our established lectures for the ...
... regard to the unaccomplished prophecies which respect that happy age . The author has remarked with extreme concern , that among the many dignified preachers , who have distinguished themselves at our established lectures for the ...
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... regard . To accomplish these desirable objects , and exhibit the Christian religion in as enlarged a view as corres- ponds with the brevity of the work , has avowedly been the wish of the author . He has commenced with natural religion ...
... regard . To accomplish these desirable objects , and exhibit the Christian religion in as enlarged a view as corres- ponds with the brevity of the work , has avowedly been the wish of the author . He has commenced with natural religion ...
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... regard to the tides which warp the marshy grounds ; they must long ago have raised them equal to the highest inundations . Hence every creature manifests the existence of the great Creator , who has discovered the perfection of wisdom ...
... regard to the tides which warp the marshy grounds ; they must long ago have raised them equal to the highest inundations . Hence every creature manifests the existence of the great Creator , who has discovered the perfection of wisdom ...
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... regard it as very exalted . The sun diffuses his genial beams over him by day , and the moon and stars illuminate the night . Summer and winter , seed - time and harvest . succeed one another without interruption . The earth supplies ...
... regard it as very exalted . The sun diffuses his genial beams over him by day , and the moon and stars illuminate the night . Summer and winter , seed - time and harvest . succeed one another without interruption . The earth supplies ...
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... regard every man as a brother , friend , or patriot . should dispose him to conform to the laws ; obey the magistrates ; and honor his sovereign , as the most sa- ered person , in whose happiness is involved the hap- ogs of all his ...
... regard every man as a brother , friend , or patriot . should dispose him to conform to the laws ; obey the magistrates ; and honor his sovereign , as the most sa- ered person , in whose happiness is involved the hap- ogs of all his ...
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Page 161 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 157 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 55 - All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth...
Page 151 - And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image ; these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Page 146 - And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious.
Page 125 - So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness ; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Page 150 - That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 61 - For unto which of the angels said He at any time, Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee...
Page 56 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Page 155 - And the Lord will create upon every dwelling-place of Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence.