Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion: In Two Volumes : to which is Prefixed, An Essay on the Best Method of Communicating Religious Knowledge to the Members of Christian Societies, Volume 1 |
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Page ii
... forming virtu- ous habits , you are , how infenfibly foever to your- felves , forming vicious ones ; and , inftead of be- coming thofe amiable objects in yourfelves , and thofe valuable members of fociety , which nature , and the God of ...
... forming virtu- ous habits , you are , how infenfibly foever to your- felves , forming vicious ones ; and , inftead of be- coming thofe amiable objects in yourfelves , and thofe valuable members of fociety , which nature , and the God of ...
Page iii
... formed , and which are the prero- gative and glory of your natures . Let me urge you , my younger hearers , to a more than ordinary attention to regularity and pro- priety of behaviour , becoming men and chriftians , that your conduct ...
... formed , and which are the prero- gative and glory of your natures . Let me urge you , my younger hearers , to a more than ordinary attention to regularity and pro- priety of behaviour , becoming men and chriftians , that your conduct ...
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... with an eafy method of difcourfing upon the subjects of natural and revealed religion to the young men of my own congregation , whom I formed into a clafs for that purpose . But when 1 was a 4 " I was induced to publifh them , for the.
... with an eafy method of difcourfing upon the subjects of natural and revealed religion to the young men of my own congregation , whom I formed into a clafs for that purpose . But when 1 was a 4 " I was induced to publifh them , for the.
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... forming the minds of his offspring ; and , fome may think , that they have fufficiently done their duty in this refpect , when they have provided them with mafters to fuperintend their edu- cation in general . Many perfons will not ...
... forming the minds of his offspring ; and , fome may think , that they have fufficiently done their duty in this refpect , when they have provided them with mafters to fuperintend their edu- cation in general . Many perfons will not ...
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... formed , and a difpofition to licentioufnefs entirely precluded . On the contrary , our greater indulgence to youth gives them more liberty , but , perhaps , not more real enjoyment even of early life ; but , whatever good effect this ...
... formed , and a difpofition to licentioufnefs entirely precluded . On the contrary , our greater indulgence to youth gives them more liberty , but , perhaps , not more real enjoyment even of early life ; but , whatever good effect this ...
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Page 308 - And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Page 317 - For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days : for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
Page 314 - Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 307 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 321 - Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means : for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...
Page 295 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Page 297 - And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen ; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Page 317 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judea, flee to the mountains ; and let them which are in the midst of it, depart out; and let not them that are in the countries, enter thereinto.
Page 115 - ... all be made alive again, that Chrift will come, by the appointment of God his father, to judge the quick and the dead, and to give to every man according to his works. Now the firm belief of thefe important truths (concerning which there are great doubts and difficulties on the light of nature, but none at all upon the fuppofition of the truth of chriftianity) cannot fail to elevate the fentiments, and ennoble the nature of man.